A Semantic Basis for Local Reasoning

Hongseok Yang and Peter O'Hearn

To appear at Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures (FOSSACS02), Grenoble, France, 6-14 April, 2002


Abstract

We present a semantic analysis of a recently proposed formalism for local reasoning, where a specification (and hence proof) can concentrate on only those cells that a program accesses. Our main results are the soundness and, in a sense, completeness of a rule that allows frame axioms, which describe invariant properties of portions of heap memory, to be inferred automatically, and thus avoided when writing specifications.


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