A general framework for certifying garbage collectors and their mutators

Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI)

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 468-479

  McCreight, Andrew ^a   Shao, Zhong ^a   Lin, Chunxiao ^b   Li, Long ^b  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Abstract data type; Assembly code verification; Garbage collection; Proof carrying code; Separation logic

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; FORMAL LOGIC; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

ABSTRACT DATA TYPE; ASSEMBLY CODE VERIFICATION; GARBAGE COLLECTION; PROOF-CARRYING CODES; SEPARATION LOGIC;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 35448938820     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1250734.1250788     Document Type: Conference Paper

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