This paper shows how to use Girard's intuitionistic linear logic extended with a classical sublogic to reason about pointer programs. More specifically, first, the paper defines the proof theory for ILC (Intuitionistic Linear logic with Constraints) and shows it is well-defined via a proof of cut elimination. Second, inspired by prior work of O'Hearn, Reynolds, and Yang, the paper explains how to interpret linear logical formulas as descriptions of a program store. Third, this paper defines a simple imperative programming language with mutable references and arrays and gives verification condition generation rules that produce assertions in ILC. Finally, we identify a fragment of ILC, ILC -, that is both decidable and closed under generation of verification conditions. Since verification condition generation is syntax-directed, we obtain a decidable procedure for checking properties of pointer programs. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006.
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Jia, L., & Walker, D. (2006). ILC: A foundation for automated reasoning about pointer programs. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 3924 LNCS, pp. 131–145). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/11693024_10
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