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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2008
Vineet Kahlon, Princeton, NJ (US);
Vineet Kahlon, Princeton, NJ (US);
NEC Laboratories America, Inc., Princeton, NJ (US);
Abstract
A system and method for pointer analysis for computer program verification includes forming a subset or cluster of pointers from pointers in a program by applying increasingly accurate alias analyses in a cascaded fashion such that each analysis works on a subset of pointers generated by a previous analysis's results. Aliases are computed for any pointer by computing aliases in the subsets in parallel instead of an entire program. For carrying out context and flow-sensitive alias analysis, function summaries are computed on small subsets in a top-down manner based on the points-to hierarchy which reduces the sizes of the summaries.