Advanced Symbolic Analysis for Compilers: New Techniques and Algorithms for Symbolic Program Analysis and Optimization (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2628, Band 2628) - Softcover

Scholz, Bernhard; Fahringer, Thomas

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ISBN 10: 3540011854 ISBN 13: 9783540011859

Verlag: Springer, 2008

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The objective of program analysis is to automatically determine the p- perties of a program. Tools of software development, such as compilers, p- formance estimators, debuggers, reverse-engineering tools, program veri?- tion/testing/proving systems, program comprehension systems, and program specializationtoolsarelargelydependentonprogramanalysis. Advancedp- gram analysis can: help to ?nd program errors; detect and tune performan- critical code regions; ensure assumed constraints on data are not violated; tailor a generic program to suit a speci?c application; reverse-engineer so- ware modules, etc. A prominent program analysis technique is symbolic a- lysis, which has attracted substantial attention for many years as it is not dependent on executing a program to examine the semantics of a program, and it can yield very elegant formulations of many analyses. Moreover, the complexity of symbolic analysis can be largely independent of the input data size of a program and of the size of the machine on which the program is being executed. In this book we present novel symbolic control and data ?ow repres- tation techniques as well as symbolic techniques and algorithms to analyze and optimize programs. Program contexts which de?ne a new symbolic - scription of program semantics for control and data ?ow analysis are at the center of our approach. We have solved a number of problems encountered in program analysis by using program contexts. Our solution methods are e?cient, versatile, uni?ed, and more general (they cope with regular and irregular codes) than most existing methods.

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Dr. Jun Qin received his MS degree in Computer Science from Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, in 2002, and completed his PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Innsbruck, Austria, in 2010. His research interests include programming languages, workflows, scientific computing, parallel and distributed computing, and high-performance computing. He is currently working for Amadeus, the leading provider of IT solutions to the tourism and travel industry. Prof. Dr. Thomas Fahringer is a Professor of Computer Science and head of the Institute of Computer Science at the University of Innsbruck. His research interests are in programming languages, workflow systems, Grid and Cloud computing, high performance and multi-core parallel computing. He has published over 160 papers in the area of performance-oriented parallel and distributed high-performance computing including 30 journal articles, 3 books and has won 3 best paper awards at top ranking IEEE and ACM conferences.

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• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3540011854
• ISBN 13: 9783540011859
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 148
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