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Certifiable Specification and Verification of C Programs

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A novel approach to the specification and verification of C programs through an annotation language that is a mixture between JML and the language of Isabelle/HOL is proposed. This yields three benefits: specifications are concise and close to the underlying mathematical model; existing Isabelle theories can be reused; and the leap of faith from specification language to encoding in a logic is small. This is of particular relevance for software certification, and verification in application areas such as robotics.

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    Christoph Lüth & Dennis Walter

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    Ana Cavalcanti

  2. Bell Laboratories, 600 Mountain Ave., 07974, Murray Hill, NY, USA

    Dennis R. Dams

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Lüth, C., Walter, D. (2009). Certifiable Specification and Verification of C Programs. In: Cavalcanti, A., Dams, D.R. (eds) FM 2009: Formal Methods. FM 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5850. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05089-3_27

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