Date Topic Reading Presenter
8/25 Intro: logistics of course, why program analyses, and flavors of program analyses None Amer
8/27 Intro to data flow analysis and constraint based analysis Chapter 1 up to and including 1.4 Amer
8/29 Intro to Abstract interpretation and type and effect systems 1.5 - 1.8 inclusive Amer
9/3 (forward, backward) x (union, intersection) data flow analyses 2.1 Devin
9/5 Monotone frameworks 2.3, 2.4 Jude
9/8 Combined analyses Click's paper Jude
9/10 No class: family emergency    
9/12 Interprocedural data flow analysis 2.5 upto 2.5.3 (inclusive) Geoff
9/15 Context sensitive data flow analysis Remainder of 2.5 Azhar
9/17 No class: Amer is out of town    
9/19 IPA continued    
9/22 Coming up for air: IPA and Shape analysis   Amer
9/24 Shape analysis 2.6 up to and including 2.6.2 Weiyu
9/26 Shape analysis continued Remainder of 2.6 Devin
9/29 Shape analysis continued Overflow from previous lecture Devin
10/1 Shape analysis (wrapup)

Example analyses in the literature: pointer analysis using assumption sets

Landi and Ryder Devin

Joe

10/3 Pointer analysis using assumption sets (cont)   Joe
10/6 Example analyses in the literature: connection analysis Ghiya and Hendren  (upto and including Section 2) Todd
10/8 Coming up for air: shape analysis and constraint-based analyses   Amer
10/10 Control flow analysis Section 3.1, skip 3.1.2 Graham
10/13 0-CFA Sections 3.3 and 3.4.1;  Skip proofs Joe
10/15 Solving constraints Section 3.4.2 Geoff
10/17 Points-to analysis using constraints Hirzel et al.'s paper  
10/20 Adding data-flow information to CFA Section 3.5 Geoff
10/22 Adding context to CFA Section 3.6 Devin
10/24 Discuss projects    
10/27

Coming up for air: Constraint based and type based analyses

   
10/29 Intro to type systems Section 5.1 Azhar
10/31 Algorithm for the underlying types Section 5.3.1 Jude
11/3 Algorithm for control flow analysis Section 5.3.2 Weiyu
11/5 Finish control-flow analysis   Weiyu finishes up
11/7 Amer is out of town: no class    
11/10 Side-Effect Analysis Section 5.4.1 Azhar
11/12 Exception Analysis 5.4.2 Joe
11/14 Region semantics 5.4.3 Geoff
11/17 Region inference analysis Tables 5.12, 5.13 Geoff
11/19 Points-to analysis using type-based analysis Steensgaard's paper Weiyu
11/21 Object-oriented type inference Palsberg and Schwartzbach's paper (didn't get to it)
12/1 Intro to AI Section 4.1 upto and including 4.1.1 Azhar
12/3 Object-oriented type inference Palsberg and Schwartzbach's paper Jude
12/5 AI (cont) Section 4.1.2, 4.1.3 Weiyu
12/8 Approximation of fixed points 4.2 (upto and excluding 4.2.1) Joe
12/10 Project presentations    
12/12 Project presentations