Dragon: An Open64-Based Interactive Program Analysis Tool for Large Applications

Barbara Chapman; Oscar Hernandez; Lei Huang; Tien Hsiung Weng; Zhenying Liu; Laksono Adhianto; Yi Wen

doi:10.1109/PDCAT.2003.1236416

Dragon: An Open64-Based Interactive Program Analysis Tool for Large Applications

Barbara Chapman, Oscar Hernandez, Lei Huang, Tien Hsiung Weng, Zhenying Liu, Laksono Adhianto, Yi Wen

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Abstract

A program analysis tool can play an important role in helping users understand and improve large application codes. Dragon is a robust interactive program analysis tool based on the Open64 compiler, which is an open source C/C++/Fortran77/90 compiler for Intel Itanium systems. We designed and developed the Dragon analysis tool to support manual optimization and parallelization of large applications by exploiting the powerful analyses of the Open64 compiler. Dragon enables users to visualize and print the essential program structure of and obtain information on their large applications. Current features include the call graph, flow graph, and data dependences. On-going work extends both Open64 and Dragon by a new call graph construction algorithm and its related interprocedural analysis, global variable definition and usage analysis, and an external interface that can be used by other tools such as profilers and debuggers to share program analysis information. Future work includes supporting the creation and optimization of shared memory parallel programs written using OpenMP.

Original language	English
Pages	792-796
Number of pages	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PDCAT.2003.1236416
State	Published - 2003
Externally published	Yes
Event	Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies, PDCAT 2003 Proceedings - Chengdu, China Duration: Aug 27 2003 → Aug 29 2003

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Conference	Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies, PDCAT 2003 Proceedings
Country/Territory	China
City	Chengdu
Period	08/27/03 → 08/29/03

Keywords

Callgraph
Data dependences
Dataflow analysis
Open64 compiler

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