Mostly-automated verification of low-level programs in computational separation logic

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 234-245

  Chlipala, Adam ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

functional programming; interactive proof assistants; low level programming languages; separation logic

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BINARY TREES; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER CIRCUITS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; FORMAL LOGIC; FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING; THEOREM PROVING; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

AUTOMATED VERIFICATION; CLASS-CODE; CODE POINTERS; INTERACTIVE PROOF ASSISTANTS; LOW LEVEL PROGRAMMING; LOW-LEVEL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; LOW-LEVEL PROGRAMS; LOW-LEVEL SYSTEMS; SEPARATION LOGIC; SYSTEM SOFTWARES;

SEPARATION;

EID: 79959871475     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1993498.1993526     Document Type: Conference Paper

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