On the Complexity of Partially-Flow-Sensitive Alias Analysis
- Noam Rinetzky ,
- G. Ramalingam ,
- Mooly Sagiv ,
- Eran Yahav
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems |
Published by Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
We introduce the notion of a partially-flow-sensitive analysis based on the number of read and write operations that are guaranteed to be analyzed in a sequential manner. We study the complexity of partially-flow-sensitive alias analysis and show that precise alias analysis with a very limited flow-sensitivity is as hard as precise flow-sensitive alias analysis, both when dynamic memory allocation is allowed, as well as in the absence of dynamic memory allocation.
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