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Freeness Analysis Through Linear Refinement

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Static Analysis (SAS 1999)

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Linear refinement is a technique for systematically constructing abstract domains for program analysis directly from a basic domain representing just the property of interest. This paper for the first time uses linear refinement to construct a new domain instead of just reconstructing an existing one. This domain is designed for definite freeness analysis and consists of sets of dependencies between sets of variables. We provide explicit definitions of the operations for this domain which we show to be safe with respect to the concrete operations. We illustrate how the domain may be used in a practical analysis by means of a small example.

Part of this work was supported by EPSRC grant GR/M05645.

Part of this work was done while Fausto Spoto was visiting the School of Computer Studies of the University of Leeds, UK.

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  1. School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK

    Patricia Hill

  2. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa, Corso Italia 40, 56100, Pisa, Italy

    Fausto Spoto

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università Ca’Foscari di Venezia, via Torino 155, I-30170, Mestre-Venezia, Italy

    Agostino Cortesi

  2. Dipartimento di Matematica Pura ed Applicata, Università di Padova, via Belzoni 7, I-35131, Padova, Italy

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Hill, P., Spoto, F. (1999). Freeness Analysis Through Linear Refinement. In: Cortesi, A., Filé, G. (eds) Static Analysis. SAS 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1694. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48294-6_6

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