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Verifying a compiler for java threads

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Andreas LochbihlerAuthors Info & Claims

ESOP'10: Proceedings of the 19th European conference on Programming Languages and Systems

Pages 427 - 447

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11957-6_23

Published: 20 March 2010 Publication History

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A verified compiler is an integral part of every security infrastructure. Previous work has come up with formal semantics for sequential and concurrent variants of Java and has proven the correctness of compilers for the sequential part. This paper presents a rigorous formalisation (in the proof assistant Isabelle/HOL) of concurrent Java source and byte code together with an executable compiler and its correctness proof. It guarantees that the generated byte code shows exactly the same observable behaviour as the semantics for the multithreaded source code.

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Verifying a compiler for java threads
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types
        Concurrent programming languages
2. Theory of computation
  1. Semantics and reasoning
    1. Program reasoning
      1. Program verification
    2. Program semantics

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