Local reasoning about data update

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AuthorsCristiano Calcagno; Philippa Gardner; Uri Zarfaty
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Typearticle
Year2007
Citekeycalcagno2007local

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Published inElectronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science
Volume172
Pages133--175

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Abstract

We present local Hoare reasoning about data update, introducing Context Logic for analysing structured data. We apply our reasoning to tree update, heap update, and term rewriting. Our reasoning about heap update is exactly analogous to the local Hoare reasoning of Separation Logic. Our reasoning about tree update and term rewriting can only be done with Context Logic.

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@article{calcagno2007local,
  title        = {Local reasoning about data update},
  author       = {Cristiano Calcagno and Philippa Gardner and Uri Zarfaty},
  year         = {2007},
  journal      = {Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science},
  volume       = {172},
  pages        = {133--175},
  doi          = {10.1016/j.entcs.2007.02.006},
}

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