A Compilation-based Under-Constrained Execution Engine

Book Open access Sep 2026

Quantifying the Code-Size Overhead of eBPF JIT Compilation

eBPF allows user-defined programs to safely extend Linux kernel functionality at runtime, but its final machine code comes from a compilation pipeline that differs from native targets, and how efficient that pipeline is has no clear reference point. Our work constructs one: using the standard LLVM x86 backend as an app...

Hoang Duong, Hao Sun, Zhen-Dong Su · eBPF@SIGCOMM · 0 citations

Java Source Code Analysis for Library Migration to Embedded Systems

This article formalizes an approach that can be used to extend code bases targeted for migration in such a manner that the threats associated the analysis of incomplete code bases are eliminated.

V. Winter, James A. McCoy, Jonathan Guerrero et al. · 0 citations

Automated Generation of RISC-V Extensions with Formal Correctness Guarantees

Janus is presented, an LLM-assisted framework that synthe-sizes custom instructions integrated into the Ibex RISC-V core while keeping correctness outside the agent, demonstrating a practical path for using LLMs to explore ISA specialization without making the agent part of the trusted correctness boundary.

Elisavet Lydia Alvanaki, Jia-Kun Wang, Eugenio Muscinelli et al. · 0 citations

Open access Oct 2026

Automated Debugging of Datalog Programs

Datalog has become a widely adopted language in program analysis, security, and data-intensive systems. However, debugging Datalog programs remains fundamentally challenging due to their declarative semantics, lack of explicit control flow, and massive scale of derived facts. Existing approaches, such as inspecting pro...

Jia-Shen Wei, Bao-Yuan Luo, Run-Shuo Xie et al. · Proceedings of the ACM on Pr... · 0 citations

#software testing Book Open access Oct 2026

Towards a Vertically Integrated Compiler Infrastructure to Improve Solver Time during Symbolic Execution

The potential of integrating the compiler infrastructure with symbolic execution, thereby obtaining a program representation optimized for SMT solving, is illustrated by contributing conditional representation, a novel compiler transformation tailored to symbolic execution that results in a solver-efficient representat...

Sören Tempel, Christian Dietrich · Proceedings of the 8th Inter... · 0 citations

Open access Oct 2026

STARS: Static Analysis-Guided Assertion Synthesis using Large Language Models

Automated unit test generation promises to reduce the cost of software quality assurance, and hence, is attracting attention from both academia and industry. Yet, generating assertions that are executable, meaningful to developers, and able to catch faults remains an unsolved challenge. Existing approaches either rando...

Jia-Lun Cao, Hao-Yu Wang, Hao-Ran Yan et al. · Proceedings of the ACM on So... · 0 citations