Compiler Verification Meets Cross-Language Linking via Data Abstraction
Many real programs are written in multiple different programming languages, and supporting this pattern creates challenges for formal compiler verification. We describe our Coq verification of a compiler for a high-level language, such that the compiler correctness theorem allows us to derive partial-correctness Hoare-logic theorems for programs built by linking the assembly code output by our compiler and assembly code produced by other means. Our compiler supports such tricky features as storable cross-language function pointers, without giving up the usual benefits of being able to verify different compiler phases (including, in our case, two classic optimizations) independently. The key technical innovation is a mixed operational and axiomatic semantics for the source language, with a built-in notion of abstract data types, such that compiled code interfaces with other languages only through axiomatically specified methods that mutate encapsulated private data, represented in whatever formats are most natural for those languages.
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10:30 - 12:00 | Specification and VerificationOOPSLA at Salon E Chair(s): Gary T. Leavens University of Central Florida | ||
10:30 22mTalk | Bounded Exhaustive Test Input Generation from Hybrid Invariants OOPSLA Nico Rosner Dept. of Computer Science FCEyN, University of Buenos Aires, Valeria Bengolea Dept. of Computer Science FCEFQyN, University of Rio Cuarto, Pablo Ponzio Dept. of Computer Science FCEFQyN, University of Rio Cuarto, Shadi Abdul Khalek Google, Nazareno Aguirre Dept. of Computer Science FCEFQyN, University of Rio Cuarto, Marcelo F. Frias Dept. of Software Engineering Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires, Sarfraz Khurshid University of Texas at Austin Link to publication | ||
10:52 22mTalk | Compiler Verification Meets Cross-Language Linking via Data Abstraction OOPSLA Link to publication | ||
11:15 22mTalk | GPS: Navigating Weak Memory with Ghosts, Protocols, and Separation OOPSLA Link to publication | ||
11:37 22mTalk | Natural Proofs for Asynchronous Programs using Almost-Synchronous Invariants OOPSLA Ankush Desai University of California, Berkeley, Pranav Garg University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, P. Madhusudan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Link to publication |