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Practical Object-sensitive Points-to Analysis for Java

Practical Object-sensitive Points-to Analysis for Java. Ana Milanova Atanas Rountev Barbara Ryder Rutgers University. x. o 1. f. y. o 2. Points-to Analysis for Java. Which objects may reference variable x point to? Builds a points-to graph. x = new A(); y = new B(); x.f = y;.

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Practical Object-sensitive Points-to Analysis for Java

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  1. Practical Object-sensitive Points-to Analysis for Java Ana Milanova Atanas Rountev Barbara Ryder Rutgers University

  2. x o1 f y o2 Points-to Analysis for Java • Which objects may reference variable x point to? • Builds a points-to graph x = new A(); y = new B(); x.f = y;

  3. Uses of Points-to Information • Clients: SE tools and compilers • Side-effect analysis • Data-flow based testing • Call graph construction • Interprocedural analyses • Program Slicing • Coverage analysis • Compiler optimizations

  4. Existing Practical Points-to Analyses for Java • Flow- and context-insensitive • Extend existing analyses for C • Context insensitivity inherently compromises precision for object-oriented languages • Goal: Introduce context sensitivity and remain practical

  5. Our Work • Object sensitivity • Form of context sensitivity for flow-insensitive points-to analysis of OO languages • Object-sensitive Andersen’s analysis • Object sensitivity applicable to other analyses • Parameterization framework • Cost vs. precision tradeoff • Empirical evaluation • Vs. context-insensitive Andersen’s analysis

  6. Outline • Imprecision of context-insensitive analysis • Object-sensitive analysis • Parameterization • Empirical results • Related work • Summary and future work

  7. The Imprecision of Context-insensitive Analysis • Does not distinguish contexts for instance methods and constructors • States of distinct objects are merged • Common OO features and idioms • Encapsulation • Inheritance • Containers, maps and iterators

  8. class Y extends X { … } class A { X f; void m(X q) { this.f=q ; }} A a = new A() ; a.m(new X()) ; A aa = new A() ; aa.m(new Y()) ; f a o1 o2 f thisA.m q f aa o3 o4 f Example: Imprecision

  9. thisA.m.f=q o1 o1 o1 this.f=q Object-sensitive Analysis • Instance methods and constructors analyzed for different contexts • Receiver objects used as contexts • Multiple copies of reference variables

  10. thisA.m.f=q o1 o1 f a o1 o2 thisA.m o1 qA.m o1 thisA.m.f=q o3 this.f=q ; o3 thisA.m o3 qA.m o3 aa o3 o4 f Example: Object-sensitive Analysis o1 class A { X f; void m(X q) { this.f=q ; }} A a = new A() ; a.m(new X()) ; A aa = new A() ; aa.m(new Y()) ;

  11. Parameterization • Goal: tunable analysis • Multiple copies for a subset of variables • For the other variables a single copy • Result: reduces points-to graph size and analysis cost • At the expense of precision loss

  12. Implementation • Implemented one instance • this, formals and return variables replicated • Constraint-based, on top of Andersen’s analysis • Optimizations • Comparison with Andersen’s analysis

  13. Empirical Results • 23 Java programs: 14 – 677 user classes • Added the necessary library classes • Machine: 360 MHz, 512Mb • Object Sensitivevs. Andersen • Comparable cost • Better precision • Modification side-effect analysis • Virtual call resolution

  14. Analysis Time

  15. Side-effect Analysis:Modified Objects Per Statement OBJECT SENSITIVE ANDERSEN jb jess sablecc raytrace Average

  16. Improvement in Resolved Calls

  17. Related Work • Context-sensitive points-to analysis for OO languages • Grove et al. OOPSLA’97, Chatterjee et al. POPL’99,Ruf PLDI’00, Grove-Chambers TOPLAS’01 • Context-insensitive points-to analysis for OO languages • Liang et al. PASTE’01, Rountev et al. OOPSLA’01 • Context-sensitive class analysis • Oxhoj et al. ECOOP’92, Agesen SAS’94, Plevyak-Chien OOPSLA’94, Agesen ECOOP’95, Grove et al. OOPSLA’97, Grove-Chambers TOPLAS’01

  18. Summary • Object sensitivity – context sensitivity for flow-insensitive analysis of OO languages • Parameterization allows flexibility • Practical cost, comparable to Andersen’s analysis • Better precision than Andersen’s analysis

  19. Future Work • Implement other instances • Object naming schemes • Theoretical and empirical comparison • Call string context sensitivity • Other instances of functional approach • Impact on client applications

  20. Modification Side-Effect (MOD) Analysis • Which objects may be modified by statement s? • Points-to analysis is prerequisite • Object-sensitive MOD analysis • Based on object-sensitive points-to analysis • Set of modified objects for each context

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