Safe to the last instruction: Automated verification of a type-safe operating system

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 99-110

  Yang, Jean ^a   Hawblitzel, Chris ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

operating system; run time system; type safety; verification

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE; AUTOMATED THEOREM PROVER; AUTOMATED VERIFICATION; DEVICE ACCESS; GARBAGE COLLECTION; HOARE LOGIC; INTERRUPT HANDLING; MEMORY SAFETY; OPERATING SYSTEMS; RUNTIME SYSTEMS; STATIC VERIFICATION; SYSTEM SOFTWARES; TYPE SAFETY; TYPED ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE;

AUTOMATION; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; REFUSE COLLECTION; WASTE DISPOSAL;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 77954740490     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1806596.1806610     Document Type: Conference Paper

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