Compiling C programs into a strongly typed assembly language

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4846 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 17-32

  Kosakai, Takahiro ^a   Maeda, Toshiyuki ^a   Yonezawa, Akinori ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

C; Memory safety; Typed assembly language

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SOFTWARE; PROGRAM COMPILERS; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

MEMORY SAFETY; SECURITY VULNERABILITIES; TYPED ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE);

EID: 38349047974     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-76929-3_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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