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Enforcing Termination of Interprocedural Analysis

Authors :
Frielinghaus, Stefan Schulze
Seidl, Helmut
Vogler, Ralf
Publication Year :
2016

Abstract

Interprocedural analysis by means of partial tabulation of summary functions may not terminate when the same procedure is analyzed for infinitely many abstract calling contexts or when the abstract domain has infinite strictly ascending chains. As a remedy, we present a novel local solver for general abstract equation systems, be they monotonic or not, and prove that this solver fails to terminate only when infinitely many variables are encountered. We clarify in which sense the computed results are sound. Moreover, we show that interprocedural analysis performed by this novel local solver, is guaranteed to terminate for all non-recursive programs --- irrespective of whether the complete lattice is infinite or has infinite strictly ascending or descending chains.

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1606.07687
Document Type :
Working Paper