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Mechanized, Compositional Verification of Low-Level Code

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NASA Formal Methods (NFM 2014)

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For many safety-critical systems besides functional correctness, termination properties are especially important. Ideally, such properties are not only established for high-level representations of a system, but also for low-level representations.

In this paper, we therefore present a compositional semantics and a related proof calculus for possibly non-deterministic low-level languages. The calculus facilitates total correctness proofs about program representations given in a low-level language. We cope with the complexity inherent to such proofs by mechanizing the entire theory using the theorem prover Isabelle/HOL and exploiting the provers mechanisms for constructing well-founded relations.

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Bartels, B., Jähnig, N. (2014). Mechanized, Compositional Verification of Low-Level Code. In: Badger, J.M., Rozier, K.Y. (eds) NASA Formal Methods. NFM 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8430. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06200-6_8

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