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Relational Parametricity and Separation Logic

  • Lars Birkedal
    ,
  • Hongseok Yang
  • Queen Mary University of London
Research Output:
Journal Article or Conference Article in Journal
Journal article
Peer-review

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Publication Information

Output type

Research Output:
Journal Article or Conference Article in Journal
Journal article
Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 1-27 (27 pages)

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

Logical Methods in Computer Science (Volume 4, Issue 2)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 2008

Publication status

Published - 2008

ISSN

1860-5974

Publication IDs

  • Scopus: 69549102206

Abstract

Separation logic is a recent extension of Hoare logic for reasoning about pro-
grams with references to shared mutable data structures. In this paper, we provide a new interpretation of the logic for a programming language with higher types. Our interpretation is based on Reynolds’s relational parametricity, and it provides a formal connection between separation logic and data abstraction

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