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POPL 2019
Sun 13 - Sat 19 January 2019 Cascais, Portugal
Fri 18 Jan 2019 16:05 - 16:27 at Sala II - Program Analysis I Chair(s): Michael D. Adams

Precise static analyses are context-, field- and flow-sensitive. Context- and field-sensitivity are both expressible as context-free language (CFL) reachability problems. Solving both CFL problems along the same data-flow path is undecidable, which is why most flow-sensitive data-flow analyses over-approximate field-sensitivity through k-limited access-path, or through access graphs. Unfortunately, as our experience and this paper show, both representations do not scale very well when used to analyze programs with recursive data structures.

Any single CFL-reachablity problem is efficiently solvable, by means of a pushdown system. This work thus introduces the concept of synchronized pushdown systems (SPDS). SPDS encode both procedure calls/returns and field stores/loads as separate but synchronized CFL reachability problems. An SPDS solves both individual problems precisely, and approximation occurs only in corner cases that are apparently rare in practice: at statements where both problems are satisfied but not along the same data-flow path.

SPDS are also efficient: formal complexity analysis shows that SPDS shift the complexity from |F|^{3k} under $k$-limiting to |S||F|^2, where F is the set of fields and S the set of statements involved in a data-flow. Our evaluation using DaCapo shows this shift to pay off in practice: SPDS are almost as efficient as k-limiting with k=1 although their precision equals the case k is infinite. For a typestate analysis SPDS accelerate the analysis up to 83x for data-flows of objects that involve many field accesses but span rather few methods.

We conclude that SPDS can provide high precision and further improve scalability, in particularly when used in analyses that expose rather local data flows.

Fri 18 Jan

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15:21 - 16:27
Program Analysis IResearch Papers at Sala II
Chair(s): Michael D. Adams University of Utah
15:21
22m
Talk
Decidable Verification of Uninterpreted Programs
Research Papers
Umang Mathur University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, P. Madhusudan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Mahesh Viswanathan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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15:43
22m
Talk
Inferring Frame Conditions with Static Correlation Analysis
Research Papers
Oana-Fabiana Andreescu Internet of Trust, Thomas P. Jensen INRIA Rennes, Stéphane Lescuyer Prove & Run, Benoît Montagu Prove & Run
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16:05
22m
Talk
Context-, Flow- and Field-Sensitive Data-Flow Analysis using Synchronized Pushdown SystemsDistinguished Paper
Research Papers
Johannes Späth Fraunhofer IEM, Karim Ali University of Alberta, Eric Bodden Heinz Nixdorf Institut, Paderborn University and Fraunhofer IEM
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