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Recent work on weighted-pushdown systems shows how to generalize interprocedural-dataflow analysis to answer “stack-qualified queries”, which answer the question “what dataflow values hold at a program node for a particular set of calling contexts?” The generalization, however, does not account for precise handling of local variables. Extended-weighted-pushdown systems address this issue, and provide answers to stack-qualified queries in the presence of local variables as well.
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Lal, A., Reps, T., Balakrishnan, G. (2005). Extended Weighted Pushdown Systems. In: Etessami, K., Rajamani, S.K. (eds) Computer Aided Verification. CAV 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3576. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11513988_44
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