Exploring C semantics and pointer provenance
- Submitting institution
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The University of Kent
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 18557
- Type
- E - Conference contribution
- DOI
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10.1145/3290380
- Title of conference / published proceedings
- Proceedings of the 46th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages - POPL 2019
- First page
- 1
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- POPL
- ISSN
- 2475-1421
- Open access status
- Technical exception
- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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https://kar.kent.ac.uk/78086/
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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6
- Research group(s)
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- Citation count
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This paper is significant because it presents the first semantic model of several aspects of the C language which are both mathematically precise and empirically grounded. It proposes precisely formulated answers to questions the C language standard has long left vague, and provides empirical evidence to support those choices. The work has been taken forward as a proposal (WG14 documents N2362-2364) to the ISO C committee, likely to be incorporated into future standards, and the ISO C++ Committee is also exploring its applicability (WG21 document P1434).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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