Abstract. Formally verifying properties of programs that manipulate arrays in loops is computationally challenging. In this paper, we focus on a useful class of such programs, and present a novel property-driven verification method that first infers array access patterns in loops using simple heuristics, and then uses this information to compositionally prove universally quantified assertions about arrays. Specifically, we identify tiles of array accesses patterns in a loop, and use the tiling information to reduce the problem of checking a quantified assertion at the end of a loop to an inductive argument that checks only a slice of the assertion for a single iteration of the loop body. We show that this method can be extended to programs with sequentially composed loops and nested loops as well. We have implemented our method in a tool called Tiler. Initial experiments show that Tiler outperforms several state-of-the-art tools on a suite of interesting benchmarks.
Tiling REF , a property-driven verification technique, overcomes these limitations for a class of programs by inferring array access patterns in loops. But identifying tiles of array accesses is itself a difficult problem, and the approach is currently based on heuristics developed by observing interesting patterns.
Verifying Array Manipulating Programs by Tiling
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