Automated verification of practical garbage collectors

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 441-453

  Hawblitzel, Chris ^a   Petrank, Erez ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOCATORS; ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE; AUTOMATED THEOREM PROVER; AUTOMATED VERIFICATION; GARBAGE COLLECTORS; REACHABILITY; REAL-WORLD; UNDERLYING SYSTEMS;

COMPETITION; LINGUISTICS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

DUST COLLECTORS;

EID: 67649846610     PISSN: 07308566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1480881.1480935     Document Type: Conference Paper

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