Formal verification of translation validators: A case study on instruction scheduling optimizations

Conference Record of the Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 17-27

  Tristan, Jean Baptiste ^a   Leroy, Xavier ^a  

^a INRIA ROCQUENCOURT   (France)

Author keywords

scheduling optimizations; the coq proof assistant; translation validation; verified compilers

Indexed keywords

COQ PROOF ASSISTANT; FORMAL VERIFICATIONS; INSTRUCTION SCHEDULING; LIST-SCHEDULING; POSTERIORI; SCHEDULING OPTIMIZATION; TRANSLATION VALIDATION; TRANSLATION VALIDATORS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; OPTIMIZATION; PROGRAM TRANSLATORS; SCHEDULING;

PROGRAM COMPILERS;

EID: 84865626400     PISSN: 07308566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1328438.1328444     Document Type: Conference Paper

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