A case study in specifying the semantics of a programming language

  • Authors:
  • Ravi Sethi

  • Affiliations:
  • The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona

  • Venue:
  • POPL '80 Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages
  • Year:
  • 1980

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Abstract

On and off over the period of about a year I have worked on a semantic specification for the C programming language My objective was to construct a readable and precise specification of C, aimed at compiler writers, maintainers, and language pundits. This paper is a report on the project.