Automatic inference of stationary fields: A generalization of java's final fields

ACM SIGPLAN Notices

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 183-195

  Unkel, Christopher ^a   Lam, Monica S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Final; Initialization; Java; Stationary

Indexed keywords

ALIAS ANALYSIS; AUTOMATIC INFERENCE; EFFICIENT ALGORITHM; FINAL; INITIALIZATION; JAVA; JAVA PROGRAM; JAVA PROGRAMMERS; MULTIPLE METHODS; OBJECT CREATION; PRECISE ANALYSIS; PROGRAM UNDERSTANDING; REAL-WORLD; STATIONARY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 59249085706     PISSN: 15232867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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