@article {19591, title = {Pushdown Control-Flow Analysis of Higher-Order Programs}, journal = {arXiv:1007.4268 [cs]}, year = {2010}, note = {Comment: The 2010 Workshop on Scheme and Functional Programming}, month = {2010/07/24/}, abstract = {Context-free approaches to static analysis gain precision over classical approaches by perfectly matching returns to call sites---a property that eliminates spurious interprocedural paths. Vardoulakis and Shivers{\textquoteright}s recent formulation of CFA2 showed that it is possible (if expensive) to apply context-free methods to higher-order languages and gain the same boost in precision achieved over first-order programs. To this young body of work on context-free analysis of higher-order programs, we contribute a pushdown control-flow analysis framework, which we derive as an abstract interpretation of a CESK machine with an unbounded stack. One instantiation of this framework marks the first polyvariant pushdown analysis of higher-order programs; another marks the first polynomial-time analysis. In the end, we arrive at a framework for control-flow analysis that can efficiently compute pushdown generalizations of classical control-flow analyses.}, keywords = {Computer Science - Programming Languages, F.3.2, F.4.1}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.4268}, author = {Earl, Christopher and Might, Matthew and David Van Horn} }