Type Structure for Low-Level Programming Languages

  • Authors:
  • Karl Crary;J. Gregory Morrisett

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ICAL '99 Proceedings of the 26th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

Providing type structure for extremely low-level programming languages, such as assembly language, yields a number of important benefits for compiler and systems projects, where reliability and security are crucial concerns. We discuss some of the issues involved in designing type systems for low-level languages, and identify some general principles that simplify constructing a proof of soundness.