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Towards Mechanized Program Verification with Separation Logic

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Abstract

Using separation logic, this paper presents three Hoare logics (corresponding to different notions of correctness) for the simple While language extended with commands for heap access and modification. Properties of separating conjunction and separating implication are mechanically verified and used to prove soundness and relative completeness of all three Hoare logics. The whole development, including a formal proof of the Frame Rule, is carried out in the theorem prover Isabelle/HOL.

Keywords

  • Separation Logic
  • Formal Program Verification
  • Interactive Theorem Proving

Research supported by Graduiertenkolleg Logik in der Informatik (PhD Program Logic in Computer Science) of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).

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Weber, T. (2004). Towards Mechanized Program Verification with Separation Logic. In: Marcinkowski, J., Tarlecki, A. (eds) Computer Science Logic. CSL 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3210. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30124-0_21

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