A non-standard semantics for program slicing and dependence analysis

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Danicic, Sebastian; Harman, Mark; Howroyd, John and Ouarbya, Lahcen. 2007. A non-standard semantics for program slicing and dependence analysis. The Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming, 72(2), pp. 192-206. ISSN 1567-8326 [Article]

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We introduce a new non-strict semantics for a simple while language. We demonstrate that this semantics allows us to give a denotational definition of variable dependence and neededness, which is consistent with program slicing. Unlike other semantics used in variable dependence, our semantics is substitutive. We prove that our semantics is preserved by traditional slicing algorithms.

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlap.2007.02.010