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Abstract Interpretation-Based Certification of Assembly Code

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Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation (VMCAI 2003)

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We present a method for analyzing assembly programs based on source program analysis and invariant translation. It is generic in the choice of an abstract domain for representing stores. This method is adapted to the design of certification tools for assembly programs generated by compiling programs written in an imperative language, without writing a specific compiler or modifying an existing one since invariant translation only uses standard debugging information. A prototype was developed for a procedural subset of the C language.

This work was supported by the RTD project IST-1999-20527 “DAEDALUS” of the European FP5 program.

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  1. École Normale Supérieure, 45, rue d’Ulm, 75230, Paris cedex 5, France

    Xavier Rival

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  1. Department of Computer Science, New York University, 715 Broadway (7th floor), NY 10003, NewYork, USA

    Lenore D. Zuck

  2. College of Computer Science, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave., 02115, Boston, MA, USA

    Paul C. Attie

  3. Computer Science Department, Venice University C’Foscari, Via Torino 155, 30170, Mestre-Venezia, Italy

    Agostino Cortesi

  4. Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University, 26505, Morgantown, WV, USA

    Supratik Mukhopadhyay

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Rival, X. (2003). Abstract Interpretation-Based Certification of Assembly Code. In: Zuck, L.D., Attie, P.C., Cortesi, A., Mukhopadhyay, S. (eds) Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation. VMCAI 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2575. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36384-X_7

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