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Unbounded Allocation in Bounded Heaps

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In this paper we introduce a new symbolic semantics for a class of recursive programs which feature dynamic creation and unbounded allocation of objects. We use a symbolic representation of the program state in terms of equations to model the semantics of a program as a pushdown system with a finite set of control states and a finite stack alphabet. Our main technical result is a rigorous proof of the equivalence between the concrete and the symbolic semantics.Adding pointer fields gives rise to a Turing complete language. However, assuming the number of reachable objects in the visible heap is bounded in all the computations of a program with pointers, we show how to construct a program without pointers that simulates it. Consequently, in the context of bounded visible heaps, programs with pointers are no more expressive than programs without them.
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hal-01514664 , version 1 (26-04-2017)

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Jurriaan Rot, Frank De Boer, Marcello Bonsangue. Unbounded Allocation in Bounded Heaps. 5th International Conference on Fundamentals of Software Engineering (FSEN), Apr 2013, Tehran, Iran. pp.1-16, ⟨10.1007/978-3-642-40213-5_1⟩. ⟨hal-01514664⟩
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