Model checking C++ programs with exceptions

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Authors	ROČKAI Petr BARNAT Jiří BRIM Luboš
Year of publication	2016
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	Science of Computer Programming
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Informatics
Citation
Web	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scico.2016.05.007
Doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scico.2016.05.007
Field	Informatics
Keywords	Model checking; C++; Exception handling; LLVM
Description	We present an extension of the DIVINE software model checker to support programs with exception handling. The extension consists of two parts, a language-neutral implementation of the LLVM exception-handling instructions, and an adaptation of the C++ runtime for the DIVINE/LLVM exception model. This constitutes an important step towards support of both the full C++ specification and towards verification of real-world C++ programs using a software model checker. Additionally, we show how these extensions can be used to elegantly implement other features with non-local control transfer, most importantly the longjmp function in C.
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