• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.15 no.11
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• pp.876-880
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• 2009

A control flow graph(CFG) is an essential data structure for program analyses based on graph theory or control-/data- flow analyses. Esterel is an imperative synchronous language and its synchronous parallelism makes it difficult to construct a CFG of an Esterel program. In this work, we present a method to construct over-approximated CFGs for Esterel. Our method is very intuitive and generated CFGs include not only exposed paths but also invisible ones. Though the CFGs may contain some inexecutable paths due to complex combinations of parallelism and exception handling, they are very useful for other program analyses.