Thu 11 Jan 2018 10:30 - 10:55 at Watercourt - Program Analysis I Chair(s): Tachio Terauchi

Incomplete source code naturally emerges in software development: during design phase, while evolving, testing and analyzing programs. Therefore, the ability to understand partial programs is a valuable asset. However, this problem is still unsolved in the C programming language. Difficulties stem from the fact that parsing C requires, not only syntax, but also semantic information. Furthermore, inferring types so that they respect C’s type system is a challenging task. In this paper we present a technique the lets us solve these problems. We provide a unification-based type inference capable of dealing with C intricacies. The ideas we present let us reconstruct partial C programs into complete well-typed ones. Such program reconstruction has several applications: enabling static-analysis tools in scenarios where software components may be absent; improving static-analysis tools that do not rely on build-specifications; allowing stub-generation and testing tools to work on snippets; and assisting programmers on the extraction of reusable data-structures out of the program parts that use them. Our evaluation is performed on source code from a variety of C libraries such as GNU’s Coreutils, GNULib, GNOME’s GLib, GDSL, and igraph; on implementations from Sedgewick’s books; and on snippets from popular open-source projects like CPython, FreeBSD, and Git.

Thu 11 Jan

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10:30 - 12:10
Program Analysis IResearch Papers at Watercourt
Chair(s): Tachio Terauchi Waseda University
10:30
25m
Talk
Inference of Static Semantics for Incomplete C Programs
Research Papers
Pre-print
10:55
25m
Talk
Optimal Dyck Reachability for Data-dependence and Alias Analysis
Research Papers
Krishnendu Chatterjee IST Austria, Andreas Pavlogiannis IST Austria, Bhavya Choudhary IIT Bombay
11:20
25m
Talk
Data-centric Dynamic Partial Order Reduction
Research Papers
Marek Chalupa Masaryk University, Krishnendu Chatterjee IST Austria, Andreas Pavlogiannis IST Austria, Kapil Vaidya IIT Bombay, Nishant Sinha IBM Research
11:45
25m
Talk
Analytical Modeling of Cache Behavior for Affine Programs
Research Papers
Wenlei Bao Ohio State University, Sriram Krishnamoorthy Pacific Northwest National Laboratories, Louis-Noël Pouchet Colorado State University, P. Sadayappan Ohio State University