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authorZhongxing Xu <xuzhongxing@gmail.com>2009-04-10 06:52:49 +0000
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<p>Thus we need to canonicalize the MemRegion which is used in binding and
retrieving.</p>
+<h3>Regions</h3>
+<p>Region is the entity used to model pointer values. A Region has the following
+properties:</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>Kind</li>
+
+<li>ObjectType: the type of the object residing on the region.</li>
+
+<li>LocationType: the type of the pointer value that the region corresponds to.
+ Usually this is the pointer to the ObjectType. But sometimes we want to cache
+ this type explicitly, for example, for a CodeTextRegion.</li>
+
+<li>StartLocation</li>
+
+<li>EndLocation</li>
+</ul>
+
<h3>Symbolic Regions</h3>
<p>A symbolic region is a map of the concept of symbolic values into the domain