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points-to analysis: a standalone construct

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Program analysis

static analysis that computes the set of memory locations each pointer may refer to.

In program analysis, points-to analysis refers to static analysis that computes the set of memory locations each pointer may refer to. This meaning comes from Steensgaard (1996) in Proceedings of the 23rd ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages - POPL '96.[1]

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References

Steensgaard, B. (1996). Points-to analysis in almost linear time. Proceedings of the 23rd ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages - POPL '96. https://doi.org/10.1145/237721.237727

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