Pointer analysis: haven't we solved this problem yet?

  • Authors:
  • Michael Hind

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM Watson Research Center, 30 Saw Mill River Road, Hawthorne, New York

  • Venue:
  • PASTE '01 Proceedings of the 2001 ACM SIGPLAN-SIGSOFT workshop on Program analysis for software tools and engineering
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

During the past twenty-one years, over seventy-five papers and nine Ph.D. theses have been published on pointer analysis. Given the tomes of work on this topic one may wonder, “Haven'trdquo; we solved this problem yet?'' With input from many researchers in the field, this paper describes issues related to pointer analysis and remaining open problems.