Towards LTL Model Checking of Unmodified Thread-Based C & C++ Programs

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Authors

BARNAT Jiří BRIM Luboš ROČKAI Petr

Year of publication 2012
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference NASA Formal Methods
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Faculty of Informatics

Citation
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28891-3_25
Field Informatics
Keywords Model checking; real code; DiVinE
Description In this paper we present a new approach to verification of multi-threaded C/C++ programs. Our solution effectively chains the parallel and distributed-memory model checker DiVinE with CLang and the LLVM bitcode interpreter. This combination offers full LTL, distributed-memory model checking of virtually unmodified C/C++ source code and is supported by a newly introduced path-reduction technique. We demonstrate the efficiency of the reduction and also the capacity to produce human-readable counter-examples in two small case studies: a C implementation of the Peterson's mutual exclusion protocol and a C++ implementation of a shared-memory, lock-free FIFO data structure designed for fast inter-thread communication.
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