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Generating Abstract Graph-Based Procedure Summaries for Pointer Programs

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Graph Transformation (ICGT 2014)

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The automated analysis and verification of pointer-manipulating programs operating on a heap is a challenging task. It requires abstraction techniques for dealing with complex program behaviour and unbounded state spaces that arise from both dynamic data structures and recursive procedures. In previous work it was shown that hyperedge replacement grammars provide an intuitive and versatile concept for defining and implementing such abstractions.

Here we extend this approach towards a modular way of reasoning about programs with (possibly recursive) procedures featuring local variables. We propose an interprocedural dataflow analysis to automatically derive procedure contracts, i.e., graph transformations that concisely capture the overall effect of a procedure. Besides its modularity, another advantage of this analysis is that it relieves us from explicitly modelling the call stack on the heap, i.e., heap and control abstraction are clearly separated. The former can now be specified by simple and intuitive hyperedge replacement grammars describing the data structures only, while the latter is realised by automatically generated procedure contracts.

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    Christina Jansen & Thomas Noll

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Jansen, C., Noll, T. (2014). Generating Abstract Graph-Based Procedure Summaries for Pointer Programs. In: Giese, H., König, B. (eds) Graph Transformation. ICGT 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8571. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09108-2_4

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