Compiler-assisted software verification using plug-ins

  • Authors:
  • Sean Callanan;Radu Grosu;Xiaowan Huang;Scott A. Smolka;Erez Zadok

  • Affiliations:
  • Stony Brook University;Stony Brook University;Stony Brook University;Stony Brook University;Stony Brook University

  • Venue:
  • IPDPS'06 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Parallel and distributed processing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We present Protagoras, a new plug-in architecture for the GNU compiler collection that allows one to modify GCC's internal representation of the program under compilation. We illustrate the utility of Protagoras by presenting plug-ins for both compile-time and runtime software verification and monitoring. In the compiletime case, we have developed plug-ins that interpret the GIMPLE intermediate representation to verify properties statically. In the runtime case, we have developed plug-ins for GCC to perform memory leak detection, array bounds checking, and reference-count access monitoring.