Verification of Programs via Intermediate Interpretation



Lisitsa, Alexei P and Nemytykh, Andrei P
(2017) Verification of Programs via Intermediate Interpretation. EPTCS 253, 2017, pp. 54-74, 253. pp. 54-74.

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Abstract

We explore an approach to verification of programs via program transformation applied to an interpreter of a programming language. A specialization technique known as Turchin's supercompilation is used to specialize some interpreters with respect to the program models. We show that several safety properties of functional programs modeling a class of cache coherence protocols can be proved by a supercompiler and compare the results with our earlier work on direct verification via supercompilation not using intermediate interpretation. Our approach was in part inspired by an earlier work by E. De Angelis et al. (2014-2015) where verification via program transformation and intermediate interpretation was studied in the context of specialization of constraint logic programs.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: In Proceedings VPT 2017, arXiv:1708.06887. The author's extended version is arXiv:1705.06738
Uncontrolled Keywords: cs.PL, cs.PL, cs.SE
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 06 Sep 2018 12:09
Last Modified: 19 Jan 2023 01:25
DOI: 10.4204/eptcs.253.6
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3025909