Automatic type inference for amortised heap-space analysis

  • Authors:
  • Martin Hofmann;Dulma Rodriguez

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Munich, Germany;Monoidics Ltd, UK

  • Venue:
  • ESOP'13 Proceedings of the 22nd European conference on Programming Languages and Systems
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

We present a fully automatic, sound and modular heap-space analysis for object-oriented programs. In particular, we provide type inference for the system of refinement types RAJA, which checks upper bounds of heap-space usage based on amortised analysis. Until now, the refined RAJA types had to be manually specified. Our type inference increases the usability of the system, as no user-defined annotations are required. The type inference consists of constraint generation and solving. First, we present a system for generating subtyping and arithmetic constraints based on the RAJA typing rules. Second, we reduce the subtyping constraints to inequalities over infinite trees, which can be solved using an algorithm that we have described in previous work. This paper also enriches the original type system by introducing polymorphic method types, enabling a modular analysis.