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Annotation Inference for Separation Logic Based Verifiers

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With the years, program complexity has increased dramatically: ensuring program correctness has become considerably more difficult with the advent of multithreading, security has grown more prominent during the last decade, etc. As a result, static verification has become more important than ever.Automated verification tools exist, but they are only able to prove a limited set of properties, such as memory safety. If we want to prove full functional correctness of a program, other more powerful tools are available, but they generally require a lot more input from the programmer: they often need the code to be verified to be heavily annotated.In this paper, we attempt to combine the best of both worlds by starting off with a manual verification tool based on separation logic for which we develop techniques to automatically generate part of the required annotations. This approach provides more flexibility: for instance, it makes it possible to automatically check as large a part of the program as possible for memory errors and then manually add extra annotations only to those parts of the code where automated tools failed and/or full correctness is actually needed.
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hal-01583323 , version 1 (07-09-2017)

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Frédéric Vogels, Bart Jacobs, Frank Piessens, Jan Smans. Annotation Inference for Separation Logic Based Verifiers. 13th Conference on Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems (FMOODS) / 31th International Conference on FORmal TEchniques for Networked and Distributed Systems (FORTE), Jun 2011, Reykjavik,, Iceland. pp.319-333, ⟨10.1007/978-3-642-21461-5_21⟩. ⟨hal-01583323⟩
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