Static program analysis aims to determine the dynamic behavior of programs without actually executing them. Symbolic analysis is an advanced static program analysis technique that has been successfully applied to memory leak detection, compilation of parallel programs, detection of superfluous bound checks, variable aliases and task deadlocks, and to worst-case execution time analysis. The symbolic analysis information is invaluable for optimizing compilers, code generators, program verification, testing and debugging.
In this book we take a novel algebra-based approach to the symbolic...