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Chris Phifer
dblp:305/0754
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2021
0000-0003-2021-1051ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Software engineering, systems software and programming languages · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
1 paper |
Programming languages and type systems · 50% Program analysis · 50% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Program analysis
specification mining |
0.5 | 1 | 2021 | A type system for extracting functional specifications from memory-safe imperative programs · Proc. ACM Program. Lang. 2021 |
Programming languages and type systems
type systems |
0.5 | 1 | 2021 | A type system for extracting functional specifications from memory-safe imperative programs · Proc. ACM Program. Lang. 2021 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
separation logic · 0.5dynamic checks · 0.5
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | A type system for extracting functional specifications from memory-safe imperative programsabstractVerifying imperative programs is hard. A key difficulty is that the specification of what an imperative program does is often intertwined with details about pointers and imperative state. Although there are a number of powerful separation logics that allow the details of imperative state to be captured and managed, these details are complicated and reasoning about them requires significant time and expertise. In this paper, we take a different approach: a memory-safe type system that, as part of type-checking, extracts functional specifications from imperative programs. This disentangles imperative state, which is handled by the type system, from functional specifications, which can be verified without reference to pointers. A key difficulty is that sometimes memory safety depends crucially on the functional specification of a program; e.g., an array index is only memory-safe if the index is in bounds. To handle this case, our specification extraction inserts dynamic checks into the specification. Verification then requires the additional proof that none of these checks fail. However, these checks are in a purely functional language, and so this proof also requires no reasoning about pointers. Paul He 0002, Eddy Westbrook, Brent Carmer, Chris Phifer, Valentin Robert, Karl Smeltzer, Andrei Stefanescu, Aaron Tomb, Adam Wick, Matthew Yacavone, Steve Zdancewic |
Proc. ACM Program. Lang. | 4 |