HOL-boogie-an interactive prover-backend for the verifying C compiler

Journal of Automated Reasoning

Volumn 44, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 111-144

  Böhme, Sascha ^a   Moskal, Michał ^b   Schulte, Wolfram ^c   Wolff, Burkhart ^d  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Annotation languages; Isabelle HOL; Memory models; Program verification; Theorem proving

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; FORMAL LOGIC; MODELING LANGUAGES; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; THEOREM PROVING;

ANNOTATION LANGUAGES; AUTOMATED THEOREM PROVER; INTERACTIVE THEOREM PROVER; ISABELLE/HOL; LANGUAGE-SPECIFIC MODELING; MEMORY MODELS; PROGRAM VERIFICATION; VERIFICATION CONDITION;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE);

EID: 74249099067     PISSN: 01687433     EISSN: 15730670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10817-009-9142-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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