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Experience of improving the blast static verification tool

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The BLAST static verification tool is one of the open-source verifiers of software written in C. The paper describes principles of BLAST implementation, the limitations revealed in the course of its practical use in the verification of the Linux operating system drivers, and an attempt to improve BLAST in the framework of the Linux Driver Verification (LDV) project [3].

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    P. E. Shved, V. S. Mutilin & M. U. Mandrykin

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Original Russian Text © P.E. Shved, V.S. Mutilin, M.U. Mandrykin, 2012, published in Programmirovanie, 2012, Vol. 38, No. 3.

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Shved, P.E., Mutilin, V.S. & Mandrykin, M.U. Experience of improving the blast static verification tool. Program Comput Soft 38, 134–142 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0361768812030061

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