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DG: Analysis and Slicing of LLVM Bitcode

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Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis (ATVA 2020)

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DG is a library written in C++ that provides several types of program analysis for LLVM bitcode. The main parts of DG are a parametric points-to analysis, a call graph construction, a data dependence analysis, and a control dependence analysis. The project includes several tools built around the analyses, the main one being a static slicer for LLVM bitcode. This paper describes what analyses are implemented in DG and its use cases with the focus on program slicing.

The work is supported by The Czech Science Foundation grant GA18-02177S.

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The author would like to thank Jan Strejček for his valuable comments on the paper. Further, many thanks go to other contributors to the DG library, mainly Tomáš Jašek, Lukáš Tomovič, and Martina Vitovská.

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Chalupa, M. (2020). DG: Analysis and Slicing of LLVM Bitcode. In: Hung, D.V., Sokolsky, O. (eds) Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis. ATVA 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12302. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59152-6_33

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