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From: "Rob Quill" <rob.quill@gmail.com>
To: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Light Formal Methods in GDB
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:07:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <baf6008d0610120707n5e41bce0xce7f875db66a0afa@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

What I am aiming to do is allow the programmer to debug his program
using linear temporal logic formulas to verify sections of code and
check that specified properties hold.

I consider this important to be included in a debugger as it allows
the programmer to stop the program execution at a certain point, and
check at run-time that parts (or all) of the program are formally
correct.

An example would be the Until operator, which allows the programmer to
specify that expression A must be true until expression B is true.

I know this is a brief explanation, and if it unclear please feel free
to ask me more about it, but I just wanted to see what people think of
the idea.

Thanks,
Rob


             reply	other threads:[~2006-10-12 14:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-12 14:07 Rob Quill [this message]
2006-10-12 19:48 ` Michael Snyder
2006-10-13 10:04   ` Rob Quill
2006-10-13 18:47     ` Michael Snyder
2006-10-16 10:18       ` Rob Quill
2006-10-16 14:38         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-10-16 18:22         ` Michael Snyder

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