Frame rule for mutually recursive procedures manipulating pointers

Theoretical Computer Science

Volumn 410, Issue 42, 2009, Pages 4216-4233

  Preoteasa, Viorel ^a  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Frame rule; Mechanical verification of programs; Mutually recursive procedures; Pointers; Predicate transformer semantics; Separation logic

Indexed keywords

FRAME RULE; MECHANICAL VERIFICATION OF PROGRAMS; MUTUALLY RECURSIVE PROCEDURES; POINTERS; PREDICATE TRANSFORMER SEMANTICS; SEPARATION LOGIC;

SEMANTICS; SEPARATION;

RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS;

EID: 69549127967     PISSN: 03043975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcs.2009.05.016     Document Type: Article

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