Extension mechanisms in Montana

Soroker, Danny; Karasick, Michael; Barton, John; Streeter, Deborah H.

doi:10.1109/iccsse.1997.599883

Cited by 15 publications

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“…A prototype version of the IBM VisualAge C++ compiler [Nackman 1997;Soroker et al 1997] is used as the front end. The abstract syntax tree constructed by the front end is transformed into a PCG and a CFG for each function, which serve as input to the alias analyses.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

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Interprocedural pointer alias analysis

Hind

Burke

Carini

et al. 1999

ACM Trans. Program. Lang. Syst.

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We present practical approximation methods for computing and representing interprocedural aliases for a program written in a language that includes pointers, reference parameters, and recursion. We present the following contributions: (1) a framework for interprocedural pointer alias analysis that handles function pointers by constructing the program call graph while alias analysis is being performed; (2) a flow-sensitive interprocedural pointer alias analysis algorithm;(3) a flow-insensitive interprocedural pointer alias analysis algorithm; (4) a flow-insensitive interprocedural pointer alias analysis algorithm that incorporates kill information to improve precision; (5) empirical measurements of the efficiency and precision of the three interprocedural alias analysis algorithms.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interprocedural pointer alias analysis

Hind

Burke

Carini

et al. 1999

ACM Trans. Program. Lang. Syst.

161

107

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“…Since extensions are written in C++ and have write access to the internals, they can crash Montana. Montana assumes that writers of extensions "know what they are doing" [28].…”

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“…In contrast, the evolution of the observer extension in Montana were driven by tool building. Observer extension in Montana have been incrementally added and refined as requested by tool builders: "Instead of guessing all of the distinguished points for observation, we added observers as needed" [28].…”

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“…However, JikesRVM does not offer a general facility to store and retrieve metadata, and all tools making use of the data must strictly be written within the JikesRVM framework. Similarly, Montana and Oberon provide frameworks for building tools and sharing information within the software development toolchain [18,10]. In both cases, plug-ins must be written specifically to the API of the system.…”

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Using program metadata to support SDT in object-oriented applications

Williams

Hiser

Davidson

2009

Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on the Implementation, Compilation, Optimization of Object-Oriented Languages and Programming S

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Software dynamic translation (SDT) is a powerful technology that enables software malleability and adaptivity at the instruction level by providing facilities for run-time monitoring and code modification. SDT has been used as the basis for many valuable tools, including dynamic optimizers, profilers, security policy enforcement, and binary translation to name a few. However, modern object-oriented programming techniques and their implementations (e.g., virtual functions, exceptions, dynamic code, etc.) pose unique challenges to high performing SDT systems. In this paper, we present Metaman, a generalized program metadata manager that stores and manages program information so that it can be efficiently accessed by emerging SDT systems to improve overall runtime performance of a managed executable. Using the information collected by Metaman, the run-time performance of an existing SDT system was improved by 22% making its execution speed only 3% slower than native (i.e., non-managed) execution.

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Extension mechanisms in Montana

Cited by 15 publications

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Interprocedural pointer alias analysis

Interprocedural pointer alias analysis

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Using program metadata to support SDT in object-oriented applications

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