%0 Conference Paper
%B Proceedings of the 6th NASA Formal Methods Symposium
%D 2014
%T Formal Verification of kLIBC with the WP Frama-C plug-in
%A N. Carvalho
%A Cristiano da Silva Sousa
%A Jorge Sousa Pinto
%A Aaron Tomb
%C Houston, Texas
%I Springer-Verlag
%S Lecture Notes in Computer Science
%X <p>This paper presents our results in the formal verification of kLIBC, a minimalistic C library, using the Frama-C/WP tool. We report how we were able to completely verify a significant number of func- tions from  and . We discuss difficulties encoun- tered and describe in detail a problem in the implementation of common  functions, for which we suggest alternative implementations. Our work shows that it is presently already viable to verify low-level C code, with heavy usage of pointers. Although the properties proved tend to be shallower as the code becomes of a lower-level nature, it is our view that this is an important direction towards real-world software verifica- tion, which cannot be attained by focusing on deep properties of cleaner code, written specifically to be verified.</p>
%8 April
%> https://haslab.uminho.pt/sites/default/files/jsp/files/2014_nfm_14_a.pdf