Formal Verification of a Realistic Compiler.

This paper reports on the development and formal verification (proof of semantic preservation) of Comp Cert, a compiler from Clight (a large subset of the C programming language) to PowerPC assembly code, using the Coq proof assistant both for programming the compiler and for proving its correctness...

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Published in:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 52; no. 7; pp. 107 - 116
Main Author:	Leroy, Xavier
Format:	Article
Published:	Association for Computing Machinery Jul2009
Subjects:	Compilers (Computer programs) C (Computer program language) Source code Computer software Systems software PowerPC microprocessors
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