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Bruno Blanchet, Patrick Cousot, Radhia Cousot, Jérôme Feret, Laurent Mauborgne, Antoine Miné, David Monniaux, and Xavier Rival. A Static Analyzer for Large Safety-Critical Software. In ACM SIGPLAN 2003 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI'03), pages 196-207, San Diego, California, June 2003. ACM.

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Bruno Blanchet, Patrick Cousot, Radhia Cousot, Jérome Feret, Laurent Mauborgne, Antoine Miné, David Monniaux, Xavier Rival
ACM SIGPLAN Notices, 2003

Abstract

We show that abstract interpretation-based static program analysis can be made efficient and precise enough to formally verify a class of properties for a family of large programs with few or no false alarms. This is achieved by refinement of a general purpose static analyzer and later adaptation to particular programs of the family by the end-user through parametrization. This is applied to the proof of soundness of data manipulation operations at the machine level for periodic synchronous safety critical embedded software.

The main novelties are the design principle of static analyzers by refinement and adaptation through parametrization the symbolic manipulation of expressions to improve the precision of abstract transfer functions, the octagon, ellipsoid, and decision tree abstract domains, all with sound handling of rounding errors in floating point computations, widening strategies (with thresholds, delayed) and the automatic determination of the parameters (parameterized packing).

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@INPROCEEDINGS{BlanchetCousotEtAl03,
  AUTHOR = {Bruno Blanchet and Patrick Cousot and Radhia Cousot and J{\'e}r{\^o}me Feret and Laurent Mauborgne and Antoine Min{\'e} and David Monniaux and Xavier Rival},
  TITLE = {A {S}tatic {A}nalyzer for {L}arge {S}afety-{C}ritical {S}oftware},
  BOOKTITLE = {ACM SIGPLAN 2003 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI'03)},
  PAGES = {196--207},
  YEAR = 2003,
  ADDRESS = {San Diego, California},
  MONTH = JUN,
  PUBLISHER = {ACM}
}


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