A static analysis for program understanding and debugging

  • Authors:
  • R. Gaugne

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ASE '97 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Automated software engineering (formerly: KBSE)
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

The paper presents a static pointer analysis technique for a subset of C. The tool supports user-defined assertions inserted in the body of the program. Assertions are of two kinds: static assertions automatically verified by the analyser, and hypothetical assertions treated as assumptions by the analyser. The technique deals with recursive data structures and it is accurate enough to handle circular structures.