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The paper presents a novel technique to create implementations of the basic primitives used in symbolic program analysis: forward symbolic evaluation, weakest liberal precondition, and symbolic composition. We used the technique to create a system in which, for the cost of writing just one specification—an interpreter for the programming language of interest—one obtains automatically-generated, mutually-consistent implementations of all three symbolic-analysis primitives. This can be carried out even for languages with pointers and address arithmetic. Our implementation has been used to generate symbolic-analysis primitives for x86 and PowerPC.
Supported by NSF under grants CCF-{0540955, 0524051, 0810053}, by AFRL under contract FA8750-06-C-0249, and by ONR under grant N00014-09-1-0510.
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Lim, J., Lal, A., Reps, T. (2009). Symbolic Analysis via Semantic Reinterpretation. In: Păsăreanu, C.S. (eds) Model Checking Software. SPIN 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5578. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02652-2_14
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