Bertrand Meyer's technology+ blog
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For a while now I have been engaged in a core problem of software verification: the aliasing problem. As with many difficult problems in science, it is easy to state the basic question: can we determine automatically whether at a program point p the values of two reference expressions e and f can ever denote … Read more
I posted here a draft of a new article, Towards a Calculus of Object Programs. Here is the abstract: Verifying properties of object-oriented software requires a method for handling references in a simple and intuitive way, closely related to how O-O programmers reason about their programs. The method presented here, a Calculus of Object Programs, … Read more