Title
Formal Verification of a C Value Analysis Based on Abstract Interpretation
Abstract
Static analyzers based on abstract interpretation are complex pieces of software implementing delicate algorithms. Even if static analysis techniques are well understood, their implementation on real languages is still error-prone. This paper presents a formal verification using the Coq proof assistant: a formalization of a value analysis (based on abstract interpretation), and a soundness proof of the value analysis. The formalization relies on generic interfaces. The mechanized proof is facilitated by a translation validation of a Bourdoncle fixpoint iterator. The work has been integrated into the CompCert verified C-compiler. Our verified analysis directly operates over an intermediate language of the compiler having the same expressiveness as C. The automatic extraction of our value analysis into OCaml yields a program with competitive results, obtained from experiments on a number of benchmarks and comparisons with the Frama-C tool.
Year
Venue
DocType
2013
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
7935
0302-9743
16
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.73
24
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sandrine Blazy133827.40
Vincent Laporte2813.61
André Maroneze3241.86
david pichardie448833.73