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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ITP.2019.32

Characteristic Formulae for Liveness Properties of Non-Terminating CakeML Programs

Authors: Johannes Åman Pohjola, Henrik Rostedt, and Magnus O. Myreen

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 141, 10th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2019)

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There are useful programs that do not terminate, and yet standard Hoare logics are not able to prove liveness properties about non-terminating programs. This paper shows how a Hoare-like programming logic framework (characteristic formulae) can be extended to enable reasoning about the I/O behaviour of programs that do not terminate. The approach is inspired by transfinite induction rather than coinduction, and does not require non-terminating loops to be productive. This work has been developed in the HOL4 theorem prover and has been integrated into the ecosystem of proof tools surrounding the CakeML programming language.

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Johannes Åman Pohjola, Henrik Rostedt, and Magnus O. Myreen. Characteristic Formulae for Liveness Properties of Non-Terminating CakeML Programs. In 10th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 141, pp. 32:1-32:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)

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@InProceedings{amanpohjola_et_al:LIPIcs.ITP.2019.32,
  author =	{\r{A}man Pohjola, Johannes and Rostedt, Henrik and Myreen, Magnus O.},
  title =	{{Characteristic Formulae for Liveness Properties of Non-Terminating CakeML Programs}},
  booktitle =	{10th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2019)},
  pages =	{32:1--32:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-122-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{141},
  editor =	{Harrison, John and O'Leary, John and Tolmach, Andrew},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITP.2019.32},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-110872},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITP.2019.32},
  annote =	{Keywords: Program verification, non-termination, liveness, Hoare logic}
}

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