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A Flexible, (C)LP-Based Approach to the Analysis of Object-Oriented Programs

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Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2007)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNTCS,volume 4915))

Abstract

Static analyses of object-oriented programs usually rely on intermediate representations that respect the original semantics while having a more uniform and basic syntax. Most of the work involving object-oriented languages and abstract interpretation usually omits the description of that language or just refers to the Control Flow Graph (CFG) it represents. However, this lack of formalization on one hand results in an absence of assurances regarding the correctness of the transformation and on the other it typically strongly couples the analysis to the source language. In this work we present a framework for analysis of object-oriented languages in which in a first phase we transform the input program into a representation based on Horn clauses. This facilitates on one hand proving the correctness of the transformation attending to a simple condition and on the other allows applying existing analyzers for (constraint) logic programming to automatically derive a safe approximation of the semantics of the original program. The approach is flexible in the sense that the first phase decouples the analyzer from most language-dependent features, and correct because the set of Horn clauses returned by the transformation phase safely approximates the standard semantics of the input program. The resulting analysis is also reasonably scalable due to the use of mature, modular (C)LP-based analyzers. This allows us to report good results for medium-sized programs.

This work was supported in part by the Prince of Asturias Chair in Information Science and Technology at UNM, the Information Society Technologies program of the European Commission, Future and Emerging Technologies under the IST-15905 MOBIUS project, the Spanish Ministry of Education under the TIN-2005-09207 MERIT project, and the Madrid Regional Government under the S-0505/TIC/0407 PROMESAS program.

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    Mario Méndez-Lojo, Jorge Navas & Manuel V. Hermenegildo

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Méndez-Lojo, M., Navas, J., Hermenegildo, M.V. (2008). A Flexible, (C)LP-Based Approach to the Analysis of Object-Oriented Programs. In: King, A. (eds) Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation. LOPSTR 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4915. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78769-3_11

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