Analysis of Recursive Game Graphs Using Data Flow Equations

Given a finite-state abstraction of a sequential program with potentially recursive procedures and input from the environment, we wish to check statically whether there are input sequences that can drive the system into “bad/good” executions. Pushdown games have been used in recent years for such analyses and there is by now a very rich literature on the subject. (See, e.g., [BS92,Tho95,Wal96,BEM97,Cac02a,CDT02].)

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