Formal certification of a compiler back-end or: Programming a compiler with a proof assistant

Conference Record of the Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 42-54

  Leroy, Xavier ^a  

^a INRIA ROCQUENCOURT   (France)

Author keywords

Certified compilation; Compiler transformations and optimizations; Program proof; Semantic preservation; The Coq theorem prover

Indexed keywords

CERTIFIED COMPILATION; COMPILER TRANSFORMATIONS AND OPTIMIZATIONS; PROGRAM PROOF; SEMANTIC PRESERVATION; THE COQ THEOREM PROVER;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; SEMANTICS;

PROGRAM COMPILERS;

EID: 33745802808     PISSN: 07308566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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