This program is tentative and subject to change.
Compilers are critical in development, but compiler bugs can cause hidden and serious bugs in their compiled code. To deepen the understanding of compiler bugs, in the prior empirical studies, researchers read the bug reports and patches of compilers, and analyze their causes, locations, and patterns. Although they derive many interesting findings, their studies are limited. First, as bug reports seldom explain which projects encounter compiler bugs, it is infeasible to understand the outreaching impact. Second, before compiler bugs are fixed, programmers can bypass such bugs. The bug reports of compilers do not introduce such workarounds. Finally, the distribution of compiler bugs can be distorted, since researchers and compiler developers also file bug reports. In this paper, we propose a novel angle to analyze compiler bugs. Instead of compiler bug reports, we collect compiler bugs that are mentioned in real development. When programmers encounter compiler bugs in real development, they can leave traces in their commit messages. By searching such messages, we collected 644 unique commits whose messages explicitly mention the urls of compiler bugs. From this angle, in this paper, we conduct the first empirical study to analyze compiler bugs in the wild. We summarize our results into seven useful findings for users, compiler developers, and researchers. For example, for researchers, we find that some large workarounds of compiler bugs involve repetitive and systematic changes, which indicates a new research opportunity for code migration tools. Furthermore, we attempt to apply our findings in real development, and we obtain positive feedback.
I received my Ph.D degree from Peking University in 2009. My Ph.D dissertation was nominated for the distinguished Ph.D dissertation award of China Computer Federation. After graduation, I joined Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences as an assistant professor, and was promoted as an associated professor in 2011. From 2012 to 2014, I was a visiting scholar with University of California, Davis. In 2014, I joined Shanghai Jiao Tong University. I am a recipient of ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, the best paper award of ASE, and the best paper award of APSEC.
This program is tentative and subject to change.
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14:00 15mTalk | Decoding the Issue Resolution Process In Practice via Issue Report Analysis: A Case Study of Firefox Research Track Pre-print | ||
14:15 15mTalk | Preserving Privacy in Software Composition Analysis: A Study of Technical Solutions and Enhancements Research Track Huaijin Wang Ohio State University, Zhibo Liu The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Yanbo Dai The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Shuai Wang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Qiyi Tang Tencent Security Keen Lab, Sen Nie Tencent Security Keen Lab, Shi Wu Tencent Security Keen Lab | ||
14:30 15mTalk | UML is Back. Or is it? Investigating the Past, Present, and Future of UML in Open Source Software Research Track Joseph Romeo Software Institute - USI, Lugano, Switzerland, Marco Raglianti Software Institute - USI, Lugano, Csaba Nagy , Michele Lanza Software Institute - USI, Lugano | ||
14:45 15mTalk | Understanding the Response to Open-Source Dependency Abandonment in the npm EcosystemAward Winner Research Track Courtney Miller Carnegie Mellon University, Mahmoud Jahanshahi Research Assistant, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Audris Mockus The University of Tennessee, Bogdan Vasilescu Raj Reddy Associate Professor of Software and Societal Systems, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, Christian Kästner Carnegie Mellon University | ||
15:00 15mTalk | Understanding Compiler Bugs in Real Development Research Track Hao Zhong Shanghai Jiao Tong University | ||
15:15 15mTalk | Studying Programmers Without Programming: Investigating Expertise Using Resting State fMRI Research Track Zachary Karas Vanderbilt University, Benjamin Gold Vanderbilt University, Violet Zhou University of Michigan, Noah Reardon University of Michigan, Thad Polk University of Michigan, Catie Chang Vanderbilt University, Yu Huang Vanderbilt University | ||
