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Synthesising interprocedural bit-precise termination proofs
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posted on 2023-06-09, 00:30 authored by Hong-Yi Chen, Cristina David, Daniel Kroening, Peter Schrammel, Björn WachterProving program termination is key to guaranteeing absence of undesirable behaviour, such as hanging programs and even security vulnerabilities such as denial-of-service attacks. To make termination checks scale to large systems, interprocedural termination analysis seems essential, which is a largely unexplored area of research in termination analysis, where most effort has focussed on difficult single-procedure problems. We present a modular termination analysis for C programs using template-based interprocedural summarisation. Our analysis combines a context-sensitive, over-approximating forward analysis with the inference of under-approximating preconditions for termination. Bit-precise termination arguments are synthesised over lexicographic linear ranking function templates. Our experimental results show that our tool 2LS outperforms state-of-the-art alternatives, and demonstrate the clear advantage of interprocedural reasoning over monolithic analysis in terms of efficiency, while retaining comparable precision.
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53-64Event name
Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2015Book title
Automated Software Engineering (ASE), 2015 30th IEEE/ACM International Conference onISBN
9781509000258Department affiliated with
- Informatics Publications
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