A flexible approach to interprocedural data flow analysis and programs with recursive data structures

  • Authors:
  • Neil D. Jones;Steven S. Muchnick

  • Affiliations:
  • Aarhus University, Denmark;Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, California

  • Venue:
  • POPL '82 Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages
  • Year:
  • 1982

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Abstract

A new approach to data flow analysis of procedural programs and programs with recursive data structures is described. The method depends on simulation of the interpreter for the subject programming language using a retrieval function to approximate a program's data structures.