PtrTracker: Pragmatic pointer analysis
Sebastian Biallas, Mads Chr. Olesen, Franck Cassez, Ralf Huuck · 2013
Static program analysis for bug detection in industrial C/C++ code has many challenges. One of them is to analyze pointer and pointer structures efficiently. While there has been much research into various aspects of pointer analysis either for compiler optimization or for verification tasks, both classical categories are not optimized for bug detection, where speed and precision are important, but soundness (no missed bugs) and completeness (no false positives) do not necessarily need to be guaranteed.