Reasoning About Programs by Exploiting the Environment
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Author
Fix, Limor
Schneider, Fred B.
Abstract
A method for making aspects of a computational model explicit in the formulas of a programming logic is given. The method is based on a new notion of environment -- an environment augments the state transitions defined by a program's atomic actions rather than being interleaved with them. Two simple semantic principles are presented for extending a programming logic in order to reason about executions feasible in various environments. The approach is illustrated by (i) discussing a new way to reason in TLA and Hoare-style programming logics about real-time and by (ii) deriving the first TLA and Hoare-style proof rules for reasoning about schedulers.
Date Issued
1994-02
Publisher
Cornell University
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http://techreports.library.cornell.edu:8081/Dienst/UI/1.0/Display/cul.cs/TR94-1409
Type
technical report