A safe approximate algorithm for interprocedural aliasing
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Context-sensitive interprocedural points-to analysis in the presence of function pointers
PLDI '94 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 1994 conference on Programming language design and implementation
Efficient context-sensitive pointer analysis for C programs
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Static detection of dynamic memory errors
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SpC: synthesis of pointers in C: application of pointer analysis to the behavioral synthesis from C
Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
Compositional pointer and escape analysis for Java programs
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A static analyzer for finding dynamic programming errors
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Effective synchronization removal for Java
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Behavioral consistency of C and verilog programs using bounded model checking
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A practical flow-sensitive and context-sensitive C and C++ memory leak detector
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Static analysis for bug finding in systems software
Static analysis for bug finding in systems software
Low-overhead memory leak detection using adaptive statistical profiling
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Region-based shape analysis with tracked locations
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Scalable error detection using boolean satisfiability
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Static detection of leaks in polymorphic containers
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Practical memory leak detection using guarded value-flow analysis
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An overview of the saturn project
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Shape Analysis by Refining on Abstract Evaluation Path
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Precise memory leak detection for java software using container profiling
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Conditional correlation analysis for safe region-based memory management
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Practical memory leak detector based on parameterized procedural summaries
Proceedings of the 7th international symposium on Memory management
A direct path to dependable software
Communications of the ACM - A Direct Path to Dependable Software
Efficiently and precisely locating memory leaks and bloat
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Demand-driven memory leak detection based on flow- and context-sensitive pointer analysis
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Diagnosing memory leaks using graph mining on heap dumps
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MeCC: memory comparison-based clone detector
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Memory leak analysis by contradiction
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Memory leaks detection in java by bi-abductive inference
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SPAS: scalable path-sensitive pointer analysis on full-sparse SSA
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Static memory leak detection using full-sparse value-flow analysis
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Memory leak detection with context awareness
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Research in Applied Computation Symposium
Interprocedural path-sensitive resource leaks detection for C programs
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Dynamically validating static memory leak warnings
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Precise memory leak detection for java software using container profiling
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LeakChecker: Practical Static Memory Leak Detection for Managed Languages
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We present a context- and path-sensitive algorithm for detecting memory leaks in programs with explicit memory management. Our leak detection algorithm is based on an underlying escape analysis: any allocated location in a procedure P that is not deallocated in P and does not escape from P is leaked. We achieve very precise context- and path-sensitivity by expressing our analysis using boolean constraints. In experiments with six large open source projects our analysis produced 510 warnings of which 455 were unique memory leaks, a false positive rate of only 10.8%. A parallel implementation improves performance by over an order of magnitude on large projects; over five million lines of code in the Linux kernel is analyzed in 50 minutes.