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The VLISP project has produced a rigorously verified compiler from Scheme to byte codes, and a verified interpreter for the resulting byte codes. The official denotational semantics for Scheme provides the main criterion of correctness. The Wand-Clinger technique was used to prove correctness of the primary compiler step. Then a state machine operational semantics is proved to be faithful to the denotational semantics. The remainder of the implementation is verified by a succession of state machine refinement proofs. These include proofs that garbage collection is a sound implementation strategy, and that a particular garbage collection algorithm is correct.
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Guttman, J.D., Ramsdell, J.D., Swarup, V. (1995). The VLISP Verified Scheme System. In: Guttman, J.D., Wand, M. (eds) VLISP A Verfied Implementation of Scheme. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2339-0_2
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