Publication detail

From Low-Level Pointers to High-Level Containers

DUDKA, K. HOLÍK, L. PERINGER, P. TRTÍK, M. VOJNAR, T.

Original Title

From Low-Level Pointers to High-Level Containers

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

We propose a method that transforms a C program manipulating containers using low-level pointer statements into an equivalent program where the containers are manipulated via calls of standard high-level container operations like push_back or pop_front. The input of our method is a C program annotated by a special form of shape invariants which can be obtained from current automatic shape analysers after a slight modification. The resulting program where the low-level pointer statements are summarized into high-level container operations is more understandable and (among other possible benefits) better suitable for program analysis. We have implemented our approach and successfully tested it through a number of experiments with list-based containers, including experiments with simplification of program analysis by separating shape analysis from analysing data-related properties.

Keywords

program analysis, static analysis, shape analysis, heap abstraction, symbolic memory graphs, program transformation, pointer programs, container programs

Authors

DUDKA, K.; HOLÍK, L.; PERINGER, P.; TRTÍK, M.; VOJNAR, T.

Released

17. 1. 2016

Publisher

Springer Verlag

Location

Berlin Heidelberg

ISBN

978-3-662-49121-8

Book

Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation (VMCAI)

Edition

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Pages from

431

Pages to

452

Pages count

22

URL

http://www.springer.com/la/book/9783662491218

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT130929,
  author="Kamil {Dudka} and Lukáš {Holík} and Petr {Peringer} and Marek {Trtík} and Tomáš {Vojnar}",
  title="From Low-Level Pointers to High-Level Containers",
  booktitle="Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation (VMCAI)",
  year="2016",
  series="Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
  volume="9583",
  pages="431--452",
  publisher="Springer Verlag",
  address="Berlin Heidelberg",
  doi="10.1007/978-3-662-49122-5\{_}21",
  isbn="978-3-662-49121-8",
  url="http://www.springer.com/la/book/9783662491218"
}