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A Rice’s Theorem for Abstract Semantics

Authors Paolo Baldan , Francesco Ranzato , Linpeng Zhang

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Paolo Baldan
  • Dipartimento di Matematica, University of Padova, Italy
Francesco Ranzato
  • Dipartimento di Matematica, University of Padova, Italy
Linpeng Zhang
  • Department of Computer Science, University College London, UK

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  • Baldan, Paolo: Partially funded by University of Padova, under the SID2018 project "Analysis of STatic Analyses (ASTA)"; Italian Ministry of University and Research, under the PRIN2017 project no. 201784YSZ5 "AnalysiS of PRogram Analyses (ASPRA)".
  • Ranzato, Francesco: Partially funded by University of Padova, under the SID2018 project "Analysis of STatic Analyses (ASTA)"; Italian Ministry of University and Research, under the PRIN2017 project no. 201784YSZ5 "AnalysiS of PRogram Analyses (ASPRA)"; Facebook Research, under a "Probability and Programming Research Award".

Acknowledgements

We are grateful to Roberto Giacobazzi for thorough discussions and comments.

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Paolo Baldan, Francesco Ranzato, and Linpeng Zhang. A Rice’s Theorem for Abstract Semantics. In 48th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 198, pp. 117:1-117:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2021.117

Abstract

Classical results in computability theory, notably Rice’s theorem, focus on the extensional content of programs, namely, on the partial recursive functions that programs compute. Later and more recent work investigated intensional generalisations of such results that take into account the way in which functions are computed, thus affected by the specific programs computing them. In this paper, we single out a novel class of program semantics based on abstract domains of program properties that are able to capture nonextensional aspects of program computations, such as their asymptotic complexity or logical invariants, and allow us to generalise some foundational computability results such as Rice’s Theorem and Kleene’s Second Recursion Theorem to these semantics. In particular, it turns out that for this class of abstract program semantics, any nontrivial abstract property is undecidable and every decidable overapproximation necessarily includes an infinite set of false positives which covers all values of the semantic abstract domain.

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  • Theory of computation → Computability
  • Theory of computation → Recursive functions
  • Theory of computation → Abstraction
Keywords
  • Computability Theory
  • Recursive Function
  • Rice’s Theorem
  • Kleene’s Second Recursion Theorem
  • Program Analysis
  • Affine Program Invariants

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