Advanced Symbolic Analysis for Compilers

Download or read book Advanced Symbolic Analysis for Compilers written by Thomas Fahringer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-04-07 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents novel symbolic control and data flow techniques as well as symbolic techniques and algorithms for program analysis and program optimization. Program contexts, defining a new symbolic description of program semantics for control and data flow analysis, are at the center of the techniques and methods introduced. The authors develop solutions for a number of problems encountered in program analysis by using program contexts. The solutions proposed are efficient, versatile, unified, and more general than most existing methods. The authors' symbolic analysis framework is implemented as a prototype as part of the Vienna High Performance Compiler.