Design and validation of computer protocols
Design and validation of computer protocols
Interprocedural aliasing in the presence of pointers
Interprocedural aliasing in the presence of pointers
A safe approximate algorithm for interprocedural aliasing
PLDI '92 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 1992 conference on Programming language design and implementation
Symbolic model checking: an approach to the state explosion problem
Symbolic model checking: an approach to the state explosion problem
Interprocedural may-alias analysis for pointers: beyond k-limiting
PLDI '94 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 1994 conference on Programming language design and implementation
The undecidability of aliasing
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Compiler transformations for high-performance computing
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Points-to analysis in almost linear time
POPL '96 Proceedings of the 23rd ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages
Precise flow-insensitive may-alias analysis is NP-hard
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Data flow analysis is model checking of abstract interpretations
POPL '98 Proceedings of the 25th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages
Advanced compiler design and implementation
Advanced compiler design and implementation
Constraint-based array dependence analysis
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Pointer analysis for programs with structures and casting
Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 1999 conference on Programming language design and implementation
Proceedings of the 1999 ACM SIGPLAN-SIGSOFT workshop on Program analysis for software tools and engineering
Efficient points-to analysis for whole-program analysis
ESEC/FSE-7 Proceedings of the 7th European software engineering conference held jointly with the 7th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Interprocedural pointer alias analysis
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Temporal abstract interpretation
Proceedings of the 27th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages
POPL '77 Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGACT-SIGPLAN symposium on Principles of programming languages
Data Flow Analysis as Model Checking
TACS '91 Proceedings of the International Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Software
The Effects of the Precision of Pointer Analysis
SAS '97 Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Static Analysis
CC '00 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Compiler Construction
Trace Scheduling: A Technique for Global Microcode Compaction
IEEE Transactions on Computers
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We study the application of a standard model checker tool, Spin, to the well-known problem of computing a may-alias relation for a C program. A precise may-alias relation can significantly improve code optimization, but in general it may be computationally too expensive. We show that, at least in the case of intraprocedural alias analysis, a model checking tool has a great potential for precision and efficiency. For instance, we can easily deal, with good precision, with features such as pointer arithmetic, arrays, structures and dynamic memory allocation. At the very least, the great flexibility allowed in defining the may-alias relation, should make it easier to experiment and to examine the connections among the accuracy of an alias analysis and the optimizations available in the various compilation phases.