Frama-C Initial setting So, I was checking a small demo of the WP plug-in the other day, just before making a presentation of Frama-C to some future fellow user. This was the traditional binary_search verification presented in the Berlin training session in 2010 but using the WP plugin instead of Jessie....
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 MoreAn insightful interjection Stephen Canon, whose explanations about the fine points of floating-point I have appreciated on StackOverflow chimed in on the subject of the restrict qualifier. With minor edits for consistency with this blog's formatting: Consider memcpy(); its arguments are declared restrict. This not only means that the source...
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