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Wed 30 Apr 2025 16:30 - 16:45 at 215 - Analysis 1 Chair(s): Antonio Filieri

Java offers the Java Native Interface (JNI), which allows programs running in the Java Virtual Machine to invoke and be manipulated by native applications and libraries written in other languages, typically C. While JNI mechanism significantly enhances the Java platform’s capabilities, it also presents challenges for static analysis of Java programs due to the complex behaviors introduced by native code. Therefore, effectively resolving the interactions between Java and native code is crucial for static analysis. In this paper, we introduce JNIFER, the first interactive cross-language pointer analysis for resolving native code in Java programs. JNIFER integrates both Java and C pointer analyses, equipped with advanced native call and JNI function analyses, enabling the simultaneous analysis of both Java and native code. During the analysis of cross-language interactions, the two analyzers interact with each other, constructing cross-language points-to relations and call graphs, thereby approximating the runtime behavior at the interaction sites. Our evaluation shows that JNIFER outperforms state-of-the-art approaches in terms of soundness while maintaining high precision and comparable efficiency, as evidenced by extensive experiments on OpenJDK and real-world Java applications.

Wed 30 Apr

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16:00 - 17:30
Analysis 1Research Track / SE In Practice (SEIP) / Journal-first Papers at 215
Chair(s): Antonio Filieri AWS and Imperial College London
16:00
15m
Talk
SUPERSONIC: Learning to Generate Source Code Optimizations in C/C++
Journal-first Papers
Zimin Chen KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sen Fang North Carolina State University, Martin Monperrus KTH Royal Institute of Technology
16:15
15m
Talk
An Extensive Empirical Study of Nondeterministic Behavior in Static Analysis ToolsArtifact-FunctionalArtifact-AvailableArtifact-Reusable
Research Track
Miao Miao The University of Texas at Dallas, Austin Mordahl University of Illinois Chicago, Dakota Soles The University of Texas at Dallas, Alice Beideck The University of Texas at Dallas, Shiyi Wei University of Texas at Dallas
16:30
15m
Talk
Interactive Cross-Language Pointer Analysis for Resolving Native Code in Java ProgramsArtifact-FunctionalArtifact-AvailableArtifact-ReusableAward Winner
Research Track
Chenxi Zhang Nanjing University, Yufei Liang Nanjing University, Tian Tan Nanjing University, Chang Xu Nanjing University, Shuangxiang Kan UNSW, Yulei Sui University of New South Wales, Yue Li Nanjing University
16:45
15m
Talk
Execution Trace Reconstruction Using Diffusion-Based Generative Models
Research Track
Madeline Janecek Brock University, Naser Ezzati Jivan , Wahab Hamou-Lhadj Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
17:00
15m
Talk
Static Analysis of Remote Procedure Call in Java Programs
Research Track
Baoquan Cui Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, RongQu State Key Laboratory of Computer Science, Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Zhen Tang Key Laboratory of System Software (Chinese Academy of Sciences), State Key Laboratory of Computer Science, Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Jian Zhang Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
17:15
15m
Talk
ArkAnalyzer: The Static Analysis Framework for OpenHarmony
SE In Practice (SEIP)
chenhaonan Beihang University, Daihang Chen Beihang University, Yizhuo Yang Beihang University, Lingyun Xu Huawei, Liang Gao Huawei, Mingyi Zhou Monash University, Chunming Hu Beihang University, Li Li Beihang University
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