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Claire Dross
Type devroom
The SPARK open-source proof tool for Ada now supports verifying pointer-based algorithms thanks to an ownership policy inspired by Rust
Starts on day 1 (2021-02-06) at 13:30 (Brussels time, UTC+1) in room Safety (duration 01:00)
Matrix room #safety:fosdem.org
SPARK is an open-source tool for formal verification of the Ada.
language. Last year, support for pointers, aka access types, was
added to SPARK. It works by enforcing an ownership
policy somewhat similar to the one used in Rust. It ensures in
particular that there is only one owner of a given data at all time,
which can be used to modify it. One of the most complex parts for
verification is the notion of borrowing. It allows to transfer the
ownership of a part of a data-structure, but only for a limited time.
Afterward ownership returns to the initial owner. In this talk, I will
explain how this can be achieved and, in particular, how we can
describe in the specification the relation between the borrower and
the borrowed object at all times.