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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.RTA.2011.41

Termination Analysis of C Programs Using Compiler Intermediate Languages

Authors: Stephan Falke, Deepak Kapur, and Carsten Sinz

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 10, 22nd International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA'11) (2011)

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Modeling the semantics of programming languages like C for the automated termination analysis of programs is a challenge if complete coverage of all language features should be achieved. On the other hand, low-level intermediate languages that occur during the compilation of C programs to machine code have a much simpler semantics since most of the intricacies of C are taken care of by the compiler frontend. It is thus a promising approach to use these intermediate languages for the automated termination analysis of C programs. In this paper we present the tool KITTeL based on this approach. For this, programs in the compiler intermediate language are translated into term rewrite systems (TRSs), and the termination proof itself is then performed on the automatically generated TRS. An evaluation on a large collection of C programs shows the effectiveness and practicality of KITTeL on "typical" examples.

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Stephan Falke, Deepak Kapur, and Carsten Sinz. Termination Analysis of C Programs Using Compiler Intermediate Languages. In 22nd International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA'11). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 10, pp. 41-50, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2011)

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@InProceedings{falke_et_al:LIPIcs.RTA.2011.41,
  author =	{Falke, Stephan and Kapur, Deepak and Sinz, Carsten},
  title =	{{Termination Analysis of C Programs Using Compiler Intermediate Languages}},
  booktitle =	{22nd International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA'11)},
  pages =	{41--50},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-30-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2011},
  volume =	{10},
  editor =	{Schmidt-Schauss, Manfred},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.RTA.2011.41},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-31232},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.RTA.2011.41},
  annote =	{Keywords: termination analysis; C programs; compiler intermediate languages}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/DagSemProc.09411.5

Termination of Integer Term Rewriting

Authors: Carsten Fuhs, Jürgen Giesl, Martin Plücker, Peter Schneider-Kamp, and Stephan Falke

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 9411, Interaction versus Automation: The two Faces of Deduction (2010)

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Recently, techniques and tools from term rewriting have been successfully applied to prove termination automatically for different programming languages. The advantage of rewrite techniques is that they are very powerful for algorithms on user-defined data structures. But in contrast to techniques for termination analysis of imperative programs, the drawback of rewrite techniques is that they do not support data structures like integer numbers which are pre-defined in almost all programming languages. To solve this problem, we extend term rewriting by built-in integers and adapt the dependency pair framework to prove termination of integer term rewriting automatically. Our experiments show that this indeed combines the power of rewrite techniques on user-defined data types with a powerful treatment of pre-defined integers.

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Carsten Fuhs, Jürgen Giesl, Martin Plücker, Peter Schneider-Kamp, and Stephan Falke. Termination of Integer Term Rewriting. In Interaction versus Automation: The two Faces of Deduction. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 9411, pp. 1-4, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2010)

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@InProceedings{fuhs_et_al:DagSemProc.09411.5,
  author =	{Fuhs, Carsten and Giesl, J\"{u}rgen and Pl\"{u}cker, Martin and Schneider-Kamp, Peter and Falke, Stephan},
  title =	{{Termination of Integer Term Rewriting}},
  booktitle =	{Interaction versus Automation: The two Faces of Deduction},
  pages =	{1--4},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2010},
  volume =	{9411},
  editor =	{Thomas Ball and J\"{u}rgen Giesl and Reiner H\"{a}hnle and Tobias Nipkow},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.09411.5},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-24233},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.09411.5},
  annote =	{Keywords: Termination analysis, integers, term rewriting, dependency pairs}
}

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