Instance-wise Reaching Definition Analysis for Recursive Programs using Context-free Transductions

Best student paper award.International audienceAutomatic parallelization of recursive programs is still an open problem today, lacking suitable and precise static analyses. We present a novel reaching definition framework based on context-free transductions. The technique achieves a global and precise description of the data flow and discovers important semantic properties of programs. Taking the example of a real-world non-derecursivable program, we show the need for a reaching definition analysis able to handle run-time instances of statements separately. A running example sketches our parallelization scheme, and presents our reaching definition analysis. Future fruitful research, at the crossroad of program analysis and formal language theory, is also hinted to