Relational Parametricity and Separation Logic

The work

AuthorsLars Birkedal; Hongseok Yang
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Typearticle
Year2008
Citekeybirkedal2008relational

Where it appeared

Published inLogical Methods in Computer Science
PublisherCentre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe (CCSD)
VolumeVolume 4, Issue 2
Article number825

Identifiers

DOI10.2168/lmcs-4(2:6)2008
ISSN1860-5974

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Abstract

Separation logic is a recent extension of Hoare logic for reasoning about programs 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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@article{birkedal2008relational,
  title        = {Relational Parametricity and Separation Logic},
  author       = {Lars Birkedal and Hongseok Yang},
  year         = {2008},
  journal      = {Logical Methods in Computer Science},
  publisher    = {Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe (CCSD)},
  volume       = {Volume 4, Issue 2},
  issn         = {1860-5974},
  articleno    = {825},
  doi          = {10.2168/lmcs-4(2:6)2008},
}

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