This paper proposes a pointer alias analysis for automatic error detection. State-of-the-art pointer alias analyses are either too slow or too imprecise for finding errors in real...
Abstract. The use of pointers presents serious problems for software productivity tools for software understanding, restructuring, and testing. Pointers enable indirect memory acce...
Program slicing is a potentially useful analysis for aiding program understanding. However, slices of even small programs are often too large to be generally useful. Imprecise poi...
Markus Mock, Darren C. Atkinson, Craig Chambers, S...
Writes via unchecked pointer dereferences rank high among vulnerabilities most often exploited by malicious code. The most common attacks use an unchecked string copy to cause a b...