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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Aharon Abadi, Eilat, IL;
Moria Abadi, Eilat, IL;
Jonathan Bnayahu, Haifa, IL;
Yishai Feldman, Tel Aviv, IL;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
According to an aspect of some embodiments of the present invention there is provided a computerized method of analyzing code of a software program for dominance relationships between a plurality of functions of the software program, the method comprising: receiving source code of a software program, the source code having a plurality of functions; identifying a plurality of intraprocedural dominator graphs each for another of the plurality of functions; combining the plurality of intraprocedural dominator graphs to create an interprocedural dominance graph with edges that logically connect between nodes of the plurality of functions; identifying a plurality of interprocedural dominance relations between nodes in different functions of the plurality of functions using the interprocedural dominance graph; and analyzing the software program according to the plurality of interprocedural dominance relations.