Abstract
Modular and local reasoning about object-oriented programs has been widely studied for programing languages such as C# and Java. Once source programs have been proven, the next verification challenge is to ensure that the code produced by the compiler is correct. Since verifying a compiler can be extremely complex, this paper uses proof-transforming compilation, an alternative approach which automatically generates certificates, a bytecode proof, from proofs in the source language. The paper develops a bytecode logic using separation logic, and proof translation from proofs of object-oriented programs to bytecode. The translation also handles proofs for concurrent programs. The bytecode logic and the proof transformation are proven sound.
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Barthe et al. called this approach preservation of proof obligations.
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The expression disjointness is used when the value \(v_1 \bigvee v_2\) is popped from the stack and assigned to a variable \(x\)
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The Open axiom allows unfolding the abstract predicate \(Val_{Recell}(this,v, {\_})\) to its definition \(Val_{Cell}(this,v) * this.bak \mapsto {\_}\).
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We thank Stephan van Staden, Sebastian Nanz, Scott West, and Mei Tang for their insightful comments on drafts of this paper. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC Grant agreement no. 291389.
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Nordio, M., Calcagno, C., Meyer, B. (2014). Certificates and Separation Logic. In: Abadi, M., Lluch Lafuente, A. (eds) Trustworthy Global Computing. TGC 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8358. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05119-2_16
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