Formal verification of a realistic compiler

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 107-115

  Leroy, Xavier ^a  

^a INRIA ROCQUENCOURT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY CODE; C PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COQ PROOF ASSISTANT; CRITICAL SOFTWARE; FORMAL VERIFICATIONS; POWERPC; SAFETY PROPERTY; SEMANTIC PRESERVATION; SOURCE CODES;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); FORMAL LOGIC; PROGRAM COMPILERS; VERIFICATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 67650088351     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1538788.1538814     Document Type: Article

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