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InterAspect

swMATH ID: 13024
Software Authors: Seyster, Justin; Dixit, Ketan; Huang, Xiaowan; Grosu, Radu; Havelund, Klaus; Smolka, Scott A.; Stoller, Scott D.; Zadok, Erez
Description: InterAspect: aspect-oriented instrumentation with GCC. We present the InterAspect instrumentation framework for GCC, a widely used compiler infrastructure. The addition of plug-in support in the latest release of GCC makes it an attractive platform for runtime instrumentation, as GCC plug-ins can directly add instrumentation by transforming the compiler’s intermediate representation. Such transformations, however, require expert knowledge of GCC internals. InterAspect addresses this situation by allowing instrumentation plug-ins to be developed using the familiar vocabulary of Aspect-Oriented Programming: pointcuts, join points, and advice functions. Moreover, InterAspect uses specific information about each join point in a pointcut, possibly including results of static analysis, to support powerful customized instrumentation. We describe the InterAspect API and present several examples that illustrate its practical utility as a runtime-verification platform. We also introduce a tracecut system that uses InterAspect to construct program monitors that are formally specified as regular expressions.
Homepage: http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/interaspect/
Keywords: program instrumentation; aspect-oriented programming; GCC; monitoring; tracecut
Related Software: AspectJ; AspectWerkz; Java-MaC; evt; Valgrind; CIL; Java-MOP; AspectC++
Cited in: 2 Publications
Further Publications: http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/interaspect/publications.html

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