Relative safety

  • Authors:
  • Joxan Jaffar;Andrew E. Santosa;Răzvan Voicu

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Republic of Singapore;School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Republic of Singapore;School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Republic of Singapore

  • Venue:
  • VMCAI'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

A safety property restricts the set of reachable states. In this paper, we introduce a notion of relative safety which states that certain program states are reachable provided certain other states are. A key, but not exclusive, application of this method is in representing symmetry in a program. Here, we show that relative safety generalizes the programs that are presently accommodated by existing methods for symmetry. Finally, we provide a practical algorithm for proving relative safety.