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Invariant Checking for Programs with Procedure Calls

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Invariants are a crucial component of the overall correctness of programs. We explore the theoretical limits for doing automatic invariant checking and show that invariant checking is decidable for a large class of programs that includes some recursive programs. The proof uses known results like the decidability of Presburger arithmetic and the semilinearity of the Parikh image of a regular language. Removing some of the restrictions on the program model leads to undecidability of the invariant checking problem.

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  • Program Model
  • Basic Block
  • Regular Language
  • Procedure Call
  • Recursive Program

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The first author was supported by Spanish Ministry of Education and Science through the FORMALISM project (TIN2007-66523) and the LOGICTOOLS-2 project (TIN2007-68093-C02-01). The second author was supported in part by NSF grants CNS-0720721 and CNS-0834810 and NASA grant NNX08AB95A.

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  1. LSI Department, Technical University of Catalonia, Jordi Girona, 1-3, 08034, Barcelona, Spain

    Guillem Godoy

  2. SRI International, 333 Ravenswood Ave, Menlo Park, CA, U.S.A.

    Ashish Tiwari

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles, 4531K Boelter Hall, 90095-1596, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Jens Palsberg

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of California, 1 Shields Avenue, 95616, Davis, CA, USA

    Zhendong Su

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Godoy, G., Tiwari, A. (2009). Invariant Checking for Programs with Procedure Calls. In: Palsberg, J., Su, Z. (eds) Static Analysis. SAS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5673. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03237-0_22

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