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A value analysis option to reuse previous function analyses
Pascal Cuoq on 6 September 2012

A context-sensitive analysis Frama-C's value analysis is context-sensitive. This means that when a function f2() is called from a caller f1() function f2() is analyzed as many times as the analyzer goes over f1(). Function f2() is analyzed each time with a different program state—the program state corresponding to the...

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Crediting where credit is due
Pascal Cuoq on 6 September 2012

In a recent post I showed how to use Frama-C's value analysis to prove a particular liveness property true or false of a particular C program. My colleague Sébastien Bardin reliably informs me that the ideas for reducing a liveness property to a reachability property were all in the article...

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Extracting information from Frama-C programmatically
Virgile Prevosto on 4 September 2012

Extending the framework Some time ago, one of our fellow users asked us whether it was possible to extract the control-flow graph (CFG) of C functions from Frama-C. Fact is, although the CFG is computed during the elaboration of the AST, nothing exists currently to present the information to the...

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On writing a dedicated model-checker for the RERS competition
Pascal Cuoq on 24 August 2012

In recent posts I have shown that Frama-C's value analysis could answer many reachability questions and some questions that weren't originally phrased as reachability questions about the programs in the RERS competition. If you are vaguely familiar with the internals of Frama-C's value analysis and if you tried analyzing some...

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Technical interlude
Pascal Cuoq on 23 August 2012

The current series of posts is pretty technical, huh? Here is a refreshing diversion in the form of a technical post that also touches on existential questions. What is this blog for? We don't know. Best solutions, or solutions anyone could have found If you have been following the current...

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