Symmetric Symbolic Safety-Analysis of Concurrent Software with Pointer Data Structures

  • Authors:
  • Farn Wang;Karsten Schmidt

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • FORTE '02 Proceedings of the 22nd IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference Houston on Formal Techniques for Networked and Distributed Systems
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We formally define the model of software with pointer data structures. We developed symbolic algorithms for the manipulation of conditions and assignments with indirect operands for verification with BDD-like data-structures. We rely on two techniques, including inactive variable elimination and process-symmetry reduction in the data-structure configuration, to contain the time and memory complexity. We use binary permutation for efficiency but also identify the possibility of anomaly of image false reachability. We implemented the techniques in tool red and compare performance with Mur驴 and SMC against several other benchmarks.