Pointer aliasing

Known as: Alias, Pointer alias

In computer programming, aliasing refers to the situation where the same memory location can be accessed using different names. For instance, if a…

Papers overview

Semantic Scholar uses AI to extract papers important to this topic.

2013

Compilation of real-world programs often requires hours. The term nightly build known to industrial researchers is an artifact of…

2010

Since Sharir and Pnueli, algorithms for context-sensitivity have been defined in terms of ‘valid’ paths in an interprocedural…

2009

We present a simple algorithmic extension of the classical call-strings approach to mitigate substantial performance degradation…

2007

A guide beam and tracking system for steering a flying body toward a target in accordance with the beam rider principle, is…

2006

This paper addresses the problem of information discovery in large collections of text. For users, one of the key problems in…

2006

. The speciﬁc problem that motivates this paper is how to obtain abstract descriptions of the meanings of imported predicates…

2000

Recently, a few whole-program static slicers for the C programming language have been developed, permitting a variety of…

1998

Abstract. A formalism is presented for tracking assertions which hold universally, i.e., at the end of all the execution paths to…

1997

This paper describes an empirical comparison of three pointer alias analysis algorithms: flow-sensitive, flow-insensitive, and…

1993

The notion of a program slice, originally introduced by Mark Weiser, is useful in program debugging, automatic parallelization…