Title
A Note on the Soundness of Difference Propagation.
Abstract
Difference propagation is an algorithm widely used in points-to and alias analysis. To the best of our knowledge, the soundness of the version of the algorithm used for the static analysis of Java programs has not yet been proven. An attempt to do this yields a surprise: when the algorithm is used to compute field sensitive points-to for Java programs, soundness cannot be guaranteed when self-loads (statements of the kind x=x.f) are present. We discuss such a scenario and suggest a modification of the algorithm that is sufficient to prove soundness.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1145/2955811.2955814
FTfJP@ECOOP
Field
DocType
Citations 
Programming language,Computer science,Static analysis,Theoretical computer science,Alias analysis,Soundness,Surprise,Java
Conference
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
8
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jens Dietrich142.41
Nicholas Hollingum2141.31
Bernhard Scholz310410.59