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Program Verification with Separation Logic

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Separation Logic is a framework for the development of modular program analyses for sequential, inter-procedural and concurrent programs. The first part of the paper introduces Separation Logic first from a historical, then from a program verification perspective. Because program verification eventually boils down to deciding logical queries such as the validity of verification conditions, the second part is dedicated to a survey of decision procedures for Separation Logic, that stem from either SMT, proof theory or automata theory. Incidentally we address issues related to decidability and computational complexity of such problems, in order to expose certain sources of intractability.

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Notes

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    We use the term “reasoning” in general, not necessarily push-button automated decision.

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    The second case \(\mathsf {emp}\wedge x\approx y \vdash \exists u ~.~ x \mapsto u * \mathsf {ls}(u,y) \vee \mathsf {emp}\wedge x\approx y\) is trivial and omitted for clarity.

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Iosif, R. (2018). Program Verification with Separation Logic. In: Gallardo, M., Merino, P. (eds) Model Checking Software. SPIN 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10869. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94111-0_3

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