Title
Different Maps for Different Uses. A Program Transformation for Intermediate Verification Languages.
Abstract
In theorem prover or SMT solver based verification, the program to be verified is often given in an intermediate verification language such as Boogie, Why, or CHC. This setting raises new challenges. We investigate a preprocessing step which takes the similar role that alias analysis plays in verification, except that now, a (mathematical) map is used to model the memory or a data object of type array. We present a program transformation that takes a program P to an equivalent program Pu0027 such that, by verifying Pu0027 instead of P, we can reduce the burden of the exponential explosion in the number of case splits. Here, the case splits are according to whether two statements using the same map variable are independent or not; if they are independent, we might as well employ two different map variables and thus remove the need for a case split (this is the idea behind the program transformation). We have implemented the program transformation and show that, in an ideal case, we can avoid the exponential explosion.
Year
Venue
DocType
2019
arXiv: Software Engineering
Journal
Volume
Citations 
PageRank 
abs/1901.01915
0
0.34
References 
Authors
7
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Daniel Dietsch18013.53
Matthias Heizmann219318.14
Jochen Hoenicke329220.43
Alexander Nutz4698.58
Andreas Podelski52760197.87