Selective context-sensitivity guided by impact pre-analysis

Hakjoo Oh, Wonchan Lee, Kihong Heo, Hongseok Yang, Kwangkeun Yi

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Abstract

We present a method for selectively applying context-sensitivity during interprocedural program analysis. Our method applies context-sensitivity only when and where doing so is likely to improve the precision that matters for resolving given queries. The idea is to use a pre-analysis to estimate the impact of contextsensitivity on the main analysis's precision, and to use this information to find out when and where the main analysis should turn on or off its context-sensitivity. We formalize this approach and prove that the analysis always benefits from the pre-analysisguided context-sensitivity. We implemented this selective method for an existing industrial-strength interval analyzer for full C. The method reduced the number of (false) alarms by 24.4%, while increasing the analysis cost by 27.8% on average. The use of the selective method is not limited to contextsensitivity. We demonstrate this generality by following the same principle and developing a selective relational analysis.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPLDI 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages475-484
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9781450327848
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event35th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, PLDI 2014 - Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Duration: 2014 Jun 92014 Jun 11

Publication series

NameProceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI)

Conference

Conference35th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, PLDI 2014
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityEdinburgh
Period14/6/914/6/11

Keywords

  • Context-sensitive analysis
  • Static analysis

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software

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