Maintaining Structural Invariants in Shape Analysis with Local Reasoning
Author
Cherem, Sigmund
Rugina, Radu
Abstract
This paper presents a novel shape analysis algorithm with local reasoning that is designed to analyze heap structures with structural invariants, such as doubly-linked lists. The algorithm abstracts and analyzes one single heap cell at a time. In order to maintain the structural invariants, the analysis uses a local heap abstraction that models the sub-heap consisting of one cell and its immediate neighbors. The proposed algorithm can successfully analyze standard doubly-linked list manipulations.
Date Issued
2006-09-29
Publisher
Cornell University
Keywords
Previously Published as
http://techreports.library.cornell.edu:8081/Dienst/UI/1.0/Display/cul.cis/TR2006-2048
Type
technical report