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Experience report: OCaml for an industrial-strength static analysis framework

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Julien Signoles,

Patrick Baudin,

Richard Bonichon,

Loïc Correnson,

Benjamin Monate,

Virgile Prevosto,

Armand PuccettiAuthors Info & Claims

ICFP '09: Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGPLAN international conference on Functional programming

Pages 281 - 286

https://doi.org/10.1145/1596550.1596591

Published: 31 August 2009 Publication History

Abstract

This experience report describes the choice of OCaml as the implementation language for Frama-C, a framework for the static analysis of C programs. OCaml became the implementation language for Frama-C because it is expressive. Most of the reasons listed in the remaining of this article are secondary reasons, features which are not specific to OCaml (modularity, availability of a C parser, control over the use of resources...) but could have prevented the use of OCaml for this project if they had been missing.

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Experience report: OCaml for an industrial-strength static analysis framework
1. Software and its engineering
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    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types
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ICFP '09: Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGPLAN international conference on Functional programming

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