Merging Techniques for Faster Derivation of WCET Flow Information using Abstract Execution

Jan Gustafsson, Andreas Ermedahl, Marc Herbstritt
2008
Static Worst-Case Execution Time (WCET) analysis derives upper bounds for the execution times of programs. Such bounds are crucial when designing and verifying real-time systems. A key component in static WCET analysis is to derive flow information, such as loop bounds and infeasible paths. We have previously introduced abstract execution (AE), a method capable of deriving very precise flow information. This paper present different merging techniques that can be used by AE for trading analysis
more » ... ime for flow information precision. It also presents a new technique, ordered merging, which may radically shorten AE analysis times, especially when analyzing large programs with many possible input variable values.
doi:10.4230/oasics.wcet.2008.1658 fatcat:6gd4mosjufhf3c4udmgcaq4l7m