Loopfrog — loop summarization for static analysis
Daniel Kroening, Natasha Sharygina, Stefano Tonetta, Aliaksei Tsitovich, Christoph M. Wintersteiger · EPiC series in computing · 2018
Loopfrog is a scalable static analyzer for ANSI-C programs, that combines the precision of model checking and the performance of abstract interpretation. In contrast to traditional static analyzers, it does not calculate the abstract fix-point of a program by iterative application of an abstract transformer. Instead, it calculates symbolic abstract transformers for program fragments (e.g., loops) using a loop summarization algorithm. Loopfrog computes abstract transformers starting from the inner-most loops, which results in linear (in the number of the looping constructs) run-time of the sum- marization procedure and which is often considerably smaller than the traditional saturation procedure of abstract interpetation. It also provides “leaping” counterexamples to aid in the diagnosis of errors.