Frama-C This demo shows the usage of Aoraï and Value to generate a scenario of a security leak in the driver of a serial port (Linux kernel 2.6). It stems from the Calmos project with LabSoC at TelecomParisTech/Eurecom C source files and the Frama-C script that launches the analysis are available...
Read MorePerry E. Metzger takes a look at formal verification [removed dead link]. This is good stuff; there is a lot to agree with here. However agreeing with Perry's post alone would not make a very interesting counterpoint. If agreeing was the only thing I intended to do I might even...
Read MoreThis post contains a complete list of everything a C program can do with a function pointer, for a rather reasonable definition of “do”. Examples of things not to do with a function pointer are also provided. That list, in contrast, is in no way exhaustive. What a C program...
Read MoreThe documentation of the correctly-rounded CRlibm floating-point library states for the difficult pow() function (p. 159): Directed rounding requires additional work in particular in subnormal handling and in exact case management. There are more exact cases in directed rounding modes therefore the performance should also be inferior. The phrase “exact...
Read MoreQuiz time What does the program below do? #include <stdio.h> int main(){ struct { int t[4]; int u; } v; v.u = 3; v.t[4] = 4; printf(\v.u=%d" v.u); return 0; } Two answers are “it prints v.u=4” and “it prints v.u=3”: $ gcc t.c && ./a.out v.u=4 $ gcc -O2...
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