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Towards Automated Static Verification of GNU C Programs

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Perspectives of System Informatics (PSI 2017)

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Abstract

Static verification based on such methods as Bounded Model Checking and Counterexample-Guided Abstraction Refinement aims at non-interactive formal proving of programs correctness against safety property specifications. To leverage existing tools for verification of a program one should prepare verification tasks first. In addition to a program fragment of a moderate size, each verification task has to contain a rather accurate model of its environment. To achieve high-quality results this model should be incrementally refined in accordance with checked safety properties. For verification of specific software, like Windows or Linux drivers, a few frameworks provide a convenient user interface and perform in an automated way generation of verification tasks, execution of static verification tools and preliminary processing of results. This paper presents a method for automated static verification of any program developed in the GNU C programming language and addresses the ongoing development of the Klever framework.

The reported study was partially supported by RFBR, research project No. 16-31-60097.

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Notes

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    https://sv-comp.sosy-lab.org/.

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    https://sv-comp.sosy-lab.org/2017/rules.php.

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    https://github.com/sosy-lab/sv-witnesses.

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    http://ltp.sourceforge.net/coverage/lcov.php.

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    https://forge.ispras.ru/projects/klever.

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    https://vcloud.sosy-lab.org/cpachecker/webclient/help/.

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Novikov, E., Zakharov, I. (2018). Towards Automated Static Verification of GNU C Programs. In: Petrenko, A., Voronkov, A. (eds) Perspectives of System Informatics. PSI 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10742. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74313-4_30

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