Non-disjunctive numerical domain for array predicate abstraction

Abstract

We present a numerical abstract domain to infer invariants on (a possibly unbounded number of) consecutive array elements using array predicates. It is able to represent and compute affine equality relations over the predicate parameters and the program variables, without using disjunctions or heuristics. It is the cornerstone of a sound static analysis of one- and two-dimensional array manipulation algorithms. The implementation shows very good performance on representative benchmarks. Our approach is sufficiently robust to handle programs traversing arrays and matrices in various ways. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.