Separation logic Page 1 86 COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM | FEBRUARY 2019 | VOL. 62 |
NO. 2 review articles A FUNDAMENTAL TECHNIQUE in reasoning about programs is the use …

Rust is a new systems programming language that promises to overcome the seemingly
fundamental tradeoff between high-level safety guarantees and low-level control over …

Iris is a framework for higher-order concurrent separation logic, which has been
implemented in the Coq proof assistant and deployed very effectively in a wide variety of …

Given the central role that C continues to play in systems software, and the difficulty of
writing safe and correct C code, it remains a grand challenge to develop effective formal …

Rust is a modern systems programming language whose ownership-based type system
statically guarantees memory safety, making it particularly well-suited to the domain of safety …

The field of concurrent separation logics (CSLs) has recently undergone two exciting
developments:(1) the Iris framework for encoding and unifying advanced higher-order CSLs …

Abstract The Verified Software Toolchain builds foundational machine-checked proofs of the
functional correctness of C programs. Its program logic, Verifiable C, is a shallowly …

A number of tools have been developed for carrying out separation-logic proofs
mechanically using an interactive proof assistant. One of the most advanced such tools is …

Safe systems programming in Rust Page 1 144 COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM | APRIL
2021 | VOL. 64 | NO. 4 contributed articles THERE IS A longstanding tension in …

This paper introduces Perennial, a framework for verifying concurrent, crash-safe systems.
Perennial extends the Iris concurrency framework with three techniques to enable crash …