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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 10, 2009
Mathew Hostetter, Jamaica Plain, MA (US);
Vineet Soni, Union City, CA (US);
Richard Schooler, Cambridge, MA (US);
Mathew Hostetter, Jamaica Plain, MA (US);
Vineet Soni, Union City, CA (US);
Richard Schooler, Cambridge, MA (US);
Tilera Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method, system, and computer program product for performing a computer program analysis. The computer program includes a plurality of instructions. The method performs a static analysis of the computer program to compute the states of a stack pointer (SP), a frame pointer (FP), and a link register (LR) at one or more instructions of the program. The static analysis is preferably performed at compile time. Further, the method computes the states of the SP, the FP, and the LR at the instructions as determined by a dynamic analysis, wherein the dynamic analysis is preferably modeled (performed) during the static analysis. Furthermore, the states determined by the static analysis and the dynamic analysis are compared. If a discrepancy is found between the two states, metadata (information operators) is inserted into the program.