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Formal verification of a realistic compiler
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This paper reports on the development and formal verification (proof of semantic preservation) of CompCert, 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. Such a verified compiler is useful in the context of critical software and its formal verification: the verification of the compiler guarantees that the safety properties proved on the source code hold for the executable compiled code as well.
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- Authors
- Leroy, X.
- Venue
- Communications of the ACM
- Published
- 2009-07
- Volume
- 52
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 107-115
- ISSN
- 0001-0782 (ISSN-L)
- 1557-7317
- OpenAlex
- W2023035194
- Cited by
- 1,187
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 40.84
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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