Advanced Symbolic Analysis for Compilers

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XII

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2. Introduction

   Pages 1-11

3. Symbolic Analysis of Programs

   Pages 13-40

4. Generating Program Contexts

   Pages 41-47

5. Symbolic Analysis Algorithms and Transformations

   Pages 49-74

6. Symbolic Analysis for Parallelizing Compilers

   Pages 75-97

7. Related Work

   Pages 99-108

8. Conclusion

   Pages 109-111

9. Appendix

   Pages 113-118

10. Back Matter

    Pages 119-129

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The objective of program analysis is to automatically determine the p- perties of a program. Tools of software development, such as compilers, p- formance estimators, debuggers, reverse-engineering tools, program veri?- tion/testing/proving systems, program comprehension systems, and program specializationtoolsarelargelydependentonprogramanalysis. Advancedp- gram analysis can: help to ?nd program errors; detect and tune performan- critical code regions; ensure assumed constraints on data are not violated; tailor a generic program to suit a speci?c application; reverse-engineer so- ware modules, etc. A prominent program analysis technique is symbolic a- lysis, which has attracted substantial attention for many years as it is not dependent on executing a program to examine the semantics of a program, and it can yield very elegant formulations of many analyses. Moreover, the complexity of symbolic analysis can be largely independent of the input data size of a program and of the size of the machine on which the program is being executed. In this book we present novel symbolic control and data ?ow repres- tation techniques as well as symbolic techniques and algorithms to analyze and optimize programs. Program contexts which de?ne a new symbolic - scription of program semantics for control and data ?ow analysis are at the center of our approach. We have solved a number of problems encountered in program analysis by using program contexts. Our solution methods are e?cient, versatile, uni?ed, and more general (they cope with regular and irregular codes) than most existing methods.

• Compiler
• abstract interpretation
• algorithms
• compiler optimization
• data flow representation
• program analysis
• program analysis algorithms
• program contexts
• program optimization
• program semantics
• symbolic analysis
• symbolic control
• symbolic program manipulation

From the reviews:

"This book is about program analysis. … the book is an in depth foray in symbolic analysis completed by an impressive and extensive discussion on the up to date references and related research work. … The book is addressed to computer science researchers and students interested in program analysis. Compiler engineers and other developers for software development tools would find this book as a valuable source of ideas and references." (Corneliu Bârsan, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1042 (17), 2004)

• Institute for Software Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

  Thomas Fahringer

• Institut für Computersprachen E185/1, Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria

  Bernhard Scholz

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