Unifying type checking and property checking for low-level code

ACM SIGPLAN Notices

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 302-314

  Condit, Jeremy ^a   Hackett, Brian ^b   Lahiri, Shuvendu K ^a   Qadeer, Shaz ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); MODEL CHECKING;

DECISION PROCEDURE; DEVICE DRIVER; PROPERTY CHECKING; TYPE CHECKER; TYPE INVARIANTS; TYPE SYSTEMS; TYPECHECKING; UNIFIED APPROACH;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE);

EID: 70350323741     PISSN: 15232867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1594834.1480921     Document Type: Conference Paper

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