CIL to Java-bytecode translation for static analysis leveraging

Abstract

A formal translation of CIL (i.e., .Net) bytecode into Java bytecode is introduced and proved sound with respect to the language semantics. The resulting code is then analyzed with Julia, an industrial static analyzer of Java bytecode. The overall process of translation and analysis is fast, scales up to industrial programs, and introduces a negligible number of false alarms. The main result of this work is to leverage existing, mature, and sound analyzers for Java bytecode by applying them to the (translated) CIL bytecode.