Pointer analysis is a technique to identify at compile-time the potential values of the pointer expressions in a program, which promises significant benefits for optimizing and parallelizing compilers. In this paper,...Pointer analysis is a technique to identify at compile-time the potential values of the pointer expressions in a program, which promises significant benefits for optimizing and parallelizing compilers. In this paper, a new approach to pointer analysis for assignments is presented. In this approach, assignments are classified into three categories: pointer assignments, structure (union) assignments and normal assignments which don't affect the point-to information. Pointer analyses for these three kinds of assignments respectively make up the integrated algorithm. When analyzing a pointer assignment, a new method called expression expansion is used to calculate both the left targets and the right targets. The integration of recursive data structure analysis into pointer analysis is a significant originality of this paper, which uniforms the pointer analysis for heap variables and the pointer analysis for stack variables. This algorithm is implemented in Agassiz, an analyzing tool for C programs developed by institute of Parallel Processing, Fudan University. Its accuracy and effectiveness are illustrated by experimental data.展开更多
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant No.69903003,Defence Science and Technology Key Laboratory Foundat
文摘Pointer analysis is a technique to identify at compile-time the potential values of the pointer expressions in a program, which promises significant benefits for optimizing and parallelizing compilers. In this paper, a new approach to pointer analysis for assignments is presented. In this approach, assignments are classified into three categories: pointer assignments, structure (union) assignments and normal assignments which don't affect the point-to information. Pointer analyses for these three kinds of assignments respectively make up the integrated algorithm. When analyzing a pointer assignment, a new method called expression expansion is used to calculate both the left targets and the right targets. The integration of recursive data structure analysis into pointer analysis is a significant originality of this paper, which uniforms the pointer analysis for heap variables and the pointer analysis for stack variables. This algorithm is implemented in Agassiz, an analyzing tool for C programs developed by institute of Parallel Processing, Fudan University. Its accuracy and effectiveness are illustrated by experimental data.
