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aliasing

[′āl·yəs·iŋ]
(computer science)
In computer graphics, the jagged appearance of diagonal lines on printouts and on video monitors.
(mathematics)
Introduction of error into the computed amplitudes of the lower frequencies in a Fourier analysis of a function carried out using discrete time samplings whose interval does not allow the proper analysis of the higher frequencies present in the analyzed function.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

aliasing

(jargon)
When several different identifiers refer to the same object. The term is very general and is used in many contexts.

See alias, aliasing bug, anti-aliasing.

aliasing

(hardware)
(Or "shadowing") Where a hardware device responds at multiple addresses because it only decodes a subset of the address lines, so different values on the other lines are ignored.
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Thus, intraprocedural aliasing can be computed by applying well-known iterative techniques to the SEG.
A SEG representation would not include nodes S2 and S4 because they do not affect pointer aliasing, effectively reducing both storage requirements and analysis time.
For pointer-induced aliasing, the information directly generated at a PCG node is dependent not only on the statements in the procedure, but also on the information that is propagated along the PCG edges to and from that node.
Flow-insensitive interprocedural aliasing algorithm.

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