The use of pointers presents serious problems for software productivity tools for software understanding, restructuring, and testing. Pointers enable indirect memory accesses through pointer dereferences, as well as indirect procedure calls (e.g., through function pointers in C). Such indirect accesses and calls can be disambiguated with pointer analysis. In this paper we evaluate the precision...

A trial was conducted to determine the effects of different feeding regimens on plasma hormone and metabolite levels in 16-wk-old broiler breeder pullets. A flock of 350 Cobb 500 breeder pullets was divided in 2 at 28 d of age and fed either every day (ED, 5 pens of 35 birds) or skip-a-day (SKIP, 5 pens of 35 birds) from 28 to 112 d of age. Total feed intake did not differ between the 2 groups....

Many program analyses perform better and produce more precise results when they are given precise pointer information. One dimension of precision is flow-sensitive pointer analysis (i.e., an analysis that respects a program’s control-flow), which has been shown to be useful for important applications such as program verification and understanding, among others. However, this type of pointer ana...

A gradual buildup of electrical potential over motor areas precedes self-initiated movements. Recently, such "readiness potentials" (RPs) were attributed to stochastic fluctuations in neural activity. We developed a new experimental paradigm that operationalized self-initiated actions as endogenous 'skip' responses while waiting for target stimuli in a perceptual decision task. We compared thes...

Constrained coding is used widely in digital communication and storage systems. In this article, we study a generalized sliding window constraint called the skip-sliding window. A (SSW) code defined terms of length L window, skip J, cost E each Each valid codeword + kJ determined by k+1 windows where i starts at (iJ 1)th symbol for all non-negative integers such that ≤ k; must be satisfied. SSW...

Pointer analysis plays a critical role in modern C compilers because of the frequent appearances of pointer expressions. It is even more important for data dependence analysis, which is essential in exploiting parallelism, because complex data structures such as arrays are often accessed through pointers in C. One of the important aspects of pointer analysis methods is their granularity, the wa...