Memory safety without runtime checks or garbage collection

Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES)

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 69-80

  Dhurjati, Dinakar ^a   Kowshik, Sumant ^a   Adve, Vikram ^a   Lattner, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic pool allocation; Compilers; Embedded systems; Programming languages; Region management; Security; Static analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; PROGRAM COMPILERS; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); SECURITY OF DATA; SEMANTICS;

AUTOMATIC POLL ALLOCATION; GARBAGE COLLECTION; MEMORY SAFETY; REGION MANAGEMENT; RUNTIME CHECKS; STATIC ANALYSIS;

STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

EID: 0242612097     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/780732.780743     Document Type: Conference Paper

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