Frama-C Here is yet another software verification competition. If you are a specialist of the verification of temporal properties and you have been regretting not to snatch that easy Xbox 360 (with Kinect!) in 2011* this is your chance to make up for it! We have the reachability part of the...
Read MoreThe previous post links to a message [removed dead link] from Michał Moskal highlighting ACSL constructs that the VCC developers at Microsoft Research had either regretted the absence of or found superfluous while re-designing their own annotation language for VCC. In that e-mail the third item in the “missing” list...
Read MoreACSL There were quite a few posts recently that were concerned with ACSL, and a few more are planned for the near future. ACSL is a specification language for C (comparable with JML for Java, for those who know about JML). Some people call it a BISL, for “Behavioral Interface...
Read MoreSome time ago, we saw that in C arrays and pointers have some subtle differences. A facetious colleague just remarked that this is also the case in ACSL especially if you use the \at(e L) construction which basically says that e is supposed to be evaluated in the state when...
Read MoreI have just sent a list of changewishes (1 2) to a static analysis competition mailing-list and that reminded me of a blog post I had to write on the strictness of the type-checker in upcoming Frama-C release Oxygen. This is the blog post. This post is not about uninitialized...
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