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Refining data flow information using infeasible paths

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Foundations of Software Engineering archive
Proceedings of the 6th European conference held jointly with the 5th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering table of contents

Zurich, Switzerland

Pages: 361 - 377

Year of Publication: 1997

ISBN:3-540-63531-9

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Rastislav Bodík	Dept. of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Rajiv Gupta	Dept. of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Mary Lou Soffa	Dept. of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

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University of Zurich : University of Zurich
CEPIS : Council of European Professional Informatics Societies
SIGSOFT: ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering
Swiss Informaticians Society : Swiss Information Society

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Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. New York, NY, USA

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