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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2014

Filed:

Jun. 17, 2010
Applicants:

Patrice Godefroid, Mercer Island, WA (US);

Johannes Kinder, Darmstadt, DE;

Inventors:

Patrice Godefroid, Mercer Island, WA (US);

Johannes Kinder, Darmstadt, DE;

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45 (2006.01); G06F 9/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Concepts and technologies are described herein for determining memory safety of floating-point computations. The concepts and technologies described herein analyze code to determine if any floating-point computations exist in the code, and if so, if the floating-point computations are memory safe. The analysis can include identifying floating-point instructions and conditional statements in the code. The code can be symbolically executed, and behavior of the floating-point instructions and the conditional statements can be monitored to determine if a floating point calculation is ever involved in computation of any memory address during the execution of the code.


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