Author
Choi, W., Aktemur, Tankut Barış, Yi, K., Tatsuta, M.
Publication Date
2011
Publication Place
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ACM
Subject
Multi-staged languages, Static analysis, Semantics preservation, Unstaging translation, Abstract interpretation, Projection
Type
Document
Language
English
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Özyeğin University
Library Asset ID
978-1-4503-0490-0
Record ID
4eb4cf21-7f88-4559-9bb8-38cadbf35eb1
Library Location
Computer Science
Date
2011
Notes
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Sample Text
Static analysis of multi-staged programs is challenging because thebasic assumption of conventional static analysis no longer holds: the program text itself is no longer a fixed static entity, but rather a dynamically constructed value. This article presents a semanticpreserving translation of multi-staged call-by-value programs into unstaged programs and a static analysis framework based on this translation. The translation is semantic-preserving in that every small-step reduction of a multi-staged program is simulated by the evaluation of its unstaged version. Thanks to this translation we can analyze multi-staged programs with existing static analysis techniques that have been developed for conventional unstaged programs: we first apply the unstaging translation, then we apply conventional static analysis to the unstaged version, and finally we cast the analysis results back in terms of the original staged program. Our translation handles staging constructs that have beenevolved to be useful in practice (typified in Lisp’s quasi quotation): open code as values, unrestricted operations on references and intentional variable-capturing substitutions. This article omits references for which we refer the reader to our companion technical report.
DOI
10.1145/1926385.1926397
