Verified validation of lazy code motion

Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI)

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 316-326

  Tristan, Jean Baptiste ^a   Leroy, Xavier ^a  

^a INRIA ROCQUENCOURT   (France)

Author keywords

Lazy code motion; Redundancy elimination; The Coq proof assistant; Translation validation; Verified compilers

Indexed keywords

COQ PROOF ASSISTANT; POSTERIORI; PROGRAM TRANSFORMATIONS; PROOF OF CORRECTNESS; REDUNDANCY ELIMINATION; TRANSLATION VALIDATION;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER SOFTWARE; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; LINGUISTICS; PROGRAM COMPILERS; PROGRAM TRANSLATORS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; REDUNDANCY;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 70450245239     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1542476.1542512     Document Type: Conference Paper

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