Context-Insensitive Alias Analysis Reconsidered

Abstract

Recent work on alias analysis in the presence of pointers has concentrated on context-sensitive interprocedural analyses, which treat multiple calls to a single procedure independently rather than constructing a single approximation to a procedure's effect on all of its callers. While context-sensitive modeling offers the potential for greater precision by considering only realizable call-return paths, its empirical benefits have yet to be measured.