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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 26, 1997
Bjarne Steensgaard, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A terminating polymorphic type inference program analysis helps to better optimize, understand, and/or browse computer programs. The analysis represents parameter values for each function call in the program with separate types and modifies the types to comply with typing constraints. The analysis also determines whether a potential non-terminating loop has been entered. If so, the analysis modifies the types such that the types comply with the typing constraints and such that the type inference analysis will terminate. In this manner, the analysis will generate a usable finite set of types for programs regardless of whether the principal typing for the program is infinite in size.