Calculating correct compilers
- Submitting institution
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University of Nottingham, The
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 1335398
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1017/S0956796815000180
- Title of journal
- Journal of Functional Programming
- Article number
- e14
- First page
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- Volume
- 25
- Issue
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- ISSN
- 0956-7968
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Citation count
- 4
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Compilers translate high-level programs written by people into low-level programs that machines can execute. This paper presents a general-purpose approach to calculating compilers directly from specifications of their correctness. The approach only requires elementary reasoning techniques and has proved applicable to calculating a wide range of different compilers. It has also been adapted to compilers for register-based machines, further demonstrating its generality. Full mathematical rigour is achieved by verifying all calculations in the Coq proof assistant.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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