Manuel Fahndrich and Jeffrey S. Foster and Jason Cu and Alexander Aiken

EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley

Technical Report No. UCB/CSD-98-996

1998

We describe our experiences with an exception analysis tool for Standard ML. Information about exceptions gathered by the analysis is visualized using PAM, a program visualization tool for EMACS. We study the results of the analysis of three well-known programs, classifying exceptions as assertion failures, error exceptions,control-flow exceptions, and pervasive exceptions. Even though the analysis is often conservative and reports many spurious exceptions, we have found it useful for checking the consistency of error and control-flow exceptions. Furthermore, using our tools, we have uncovered two minor exception-related bugs in the three programs we scrutinized.

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BibTeX citation:

@techreport{Fahndrich:CSD-98-996,
    Author= {Fahndrich, Manuel and Foster, Jeffrey S. and Cu, Jason and Aiken, Alexander},
    Title= {Tracking down Exceptions in Standard ML Programs},
    Year= {1998},
    Month= {Feb},
    Url= {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1998/5561.html},
    Number= {UCB/CSD-98-996},
    Abstract= {We describe our experiences with an exception analysis tool for Standard ML. Information about exceptions gathered by the analysis is visualized using PAM, a program visualization tool for EMACS. We study the results of the analysis of three well-known programs, classifying exceptions as assertion failures, error exceptions,control-flow exceptions, and pervasive exceptions. Even though the analysis is often conservative and reports many spurious exceptions, we have found it useful for checking the consistency of error and control-flow exceptions. Furthermore, using our tools, we have uncovered two minor exception-related bugs in the three programs we scrutinized.},
}

EndNote citation:

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%A Foster, Jeffrey S. 
%A Cu, Jason 
%A Aiken, Alexander 
%T Tracking down Exceptions in Standard ML Programs
%I EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley
%D 1998
%@ UCB/CSD-98-996
%U http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1998/5561.html
%F Fahndrich:CSD-98-996