Design and implementation of a special-purpose static program analyzer for safety-critical real-time embedded software

Bruno Blanchet, Patrick Cousot, Radhia Cousot, Jerôme Feret, Laurent Mauborgne, Antoine Miné, David Monniaux, Xavier Rival

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Abstract

We report on a successful preliminary experience in the design and implementation of a special-purpose Abstract Interpretation based static program analyzer for the verification of safety critical embedded real-time software. The analyzer is both precise (zero false alarm in the considered experiment) and efficient (less than one minute of analysis for 10,000 lines of code). Even if it is based on a simple interval analysis, many features have been added to obtain the desired precision: expansion of small arrays, widening with several thresholds, loop unrolling, trace partitioning, relations between loop counters and other variables. The efficiency of the tool mainly comes from a clever representation of abstract environments based on balanced binary search trees.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationThe Essence of Computation
Subtitle of host publicationComplexity, Analysis, Transformation
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages85-108
Number of pages24
ISBN (Print)9783540003267
DOIs
StatePublished - 2002

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume2566 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Computer Science(all)

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