Verification of Programs via Intermediate Interpretation

Alexei P. Lisitsa
(Department of Computer Science, The University of Liverpool)
Andrei P. Nemytykh
(Program Systems Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences)

We explore an approach to verification of programs via program transformation applied to an interpreter of a programming language. A specialization technique known as Turchin's supercompilation is used to specialize some interpreters with respect to the program models. We show that several safety properties of functional programs modeling a class of cache coherence protocols can be proved by a supercompiler and compare the results with our earlier work on direct verification via supercompilation not using intermediate interpretation.

Our approach was in part inspired by an earlier work by E. De Angelis et al. (2014-2015) where verification via program transformation and intermediate interpretation was studied in the context of specialization of constraint logic programs.

In Alexei Lisitsa, Andrei P. Nemytykh and Maurizio Proietti: Proceedings Fifth International Workshop on Verification and Program Transformation (VPT 2017), Uppsala, Sweden, 29th April 2017, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 253, pp. 54–74.
Published: 23rd August 2017.

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