Authors: Ian J. Davis Michael W. Godfrey
Venue: SANER 2010 17th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, pp. 242-246, 2010
Year: 2010
Abstract: To date, most clone detection techniques have concentrated on various forms of source code analysis, often by analyzing token streams. In this paper, we introduce a complementary technique of analyzing generated assembler for clones. This approach is appealing as it is mostly impervious to trivial changes in the source, with compilation serving as a kind of normalization technique. We have built detectors to analyze both Java VM code as well as GCC Linux assembler for C and C++. In the paper, we describe our approach and show how it can serve as a valuable complementary semantic approach to syntactic source code based detection.
BibTeX:
@inproceedings{ianj.davis2010fwicdsccbaa,
author = "Ian J. Davis and Michael W. Godfrey",
title = "From Whence It Came: Detecting Source Code Clones by Analyzing Assembler",
year = "2010",
pages = "242-246",
booktitle = "Proceedings of 2010 17th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering"
}
Plain Text:
Ian J. Davis and Michael W. Godfrey, "From Whence It Came: Detecting Source Code Clones by Analyzing Assembler," 2010 17th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, pp. 242-246