Formalizing the LLVM intermediate representation for verified program transformations

ACM SIGPLAN Notices

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 427-439

  Zhao, Jianzhou ^a   Nagarakatte, Santosh ^a   Martin, Milo M K ^a   Zdancewic, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coq; LLVM; Memory safety

Indexed keywords

C PROGRAMS; COQ; FORMAL SEMANTICS; INTERACTIVE THEOREM PROVER; INTERMEDIATE REPRESENTATIONS; LLVM; MEMORY SAFETY; OPERATIONAL SEMANTICS; PROGRAM TRANSFORMATIONS; REFERENCE IMPLEMENTATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; TYPE SYSTEMS;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; SEMANTICS;

PROGRAM INTERPRETERS;

EID: 84863157073     PISSN: 15232867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2103621.2103709     Document Type: Conference Paper

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