Value-Range Analysis of C Programs

From the reviews: "This book describes a static analysis that aims to prove the absence of buffer overflows in C programs. ... The book formally describes how program operations are mapped to operations on polyhedra. ... Many concepts presented here carry over to other languages such as Java or assembler. So it will be useful to any researcher and student with an interest in static analysis of real-world programming languages." (Stefan Meyer, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1155, 2009)

• From the Contents: Preface.- Introduction.-Value Range Analysis.- Analysing C.- A Semantics for C.- Core C.- Related Work.- Part 1 Abstracting Soundly.- Abstract State Space.- Points-To Analysis.- Numeric Domains.- Taming Casting and Wrapping.- A Language Featuring Finite Integer Arithmetic.- Implicit Wrapping of Polyhedral Variables.- Explicit Wrapping of Polyhedral Variables.- An Abstract Semantics for SubC.- Discussion.- Overlapping Memory Accesses and Pointers.- Memory as a Set of Fields.- Mixing Values and Pointers.- Abstraction Relation.- Abstract Semantics.- Part II Ensuring Efficiency.- Planar Polyhedra.- Operations on Inequalities.- Operations on Sets of Inequalities.- The TVPI Abstract Domain.- The Integral TVPI Domain.- Interfacing Analysis and Numeric Domain.- Inferring Relevant Fields and Addresses.- Applying Widening in Fixpoint Calculations.- Part III Improving Precision.- Tracking String Lengths.- Widening with Landmarks .- Combining Points-To and Numeric Analysis.- Conclusion and Outlook