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Dartagnan: Bounded Model Checking for Weak Memory Models (Competition Contribution)

Hernán Ponce-de-León, Florian Furbach, Keijo Heljanko, Roland Meyer

2020Lecture notes in computer science17 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

Abstract Dartagnan is a bounded model checker for concurrent programs under weak memory models. What makes it different from other tools is that the memory model is not hard-coded inside Dartagnan but taken as part of the input. For SV-COMP ’20, we take as input sequential consistency (i.e. the standard interleaving memory model) extended by support for atomic blocks. Our point is to demonstrate that a universal tool can be competitive and perform well in SV-COMP . Being a bounded model checker, Dartagnan ’s focus is on disproving safety properties by finding counterexample executions. For programs with bounded loops, Dartagnan performs an iterative unwinding that results in a complete analysis. The SV-COMP ’20 version of Dartagnan works on Boogie code. The C programs of the competition are translated internally to Boogie using SMACK .

Topics & Concepts

Bounded functionComputer scienceCounterexampleMemory modelModel checkingInterleavingSequential consistencyConsistency (knowledge bases)Focus (optics)Code (set theory)Theoretical computer scienceParallel computingAlgorithmProgramming languageShared memoryDiscrete mathematicsData consistencyConsistency modelDistributed computingMathematicsArtificial intelligenceOperating systemSet (abstract data type)OpticsMathematical analysisPhysicsFormal Methods in VerificationSecurity and Verification in ComputingSoftware Testing and Debugging Techniques