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Proving heap-manipulating programs with SPARK

Talkat FOSDEM 2021 · on Saturday, 2021-02-06· at 13:30· D.safety
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Describes how SPARK (the Ada verification tool) now verifies pointer-based (access type) programs by enforcing an ownership policy inspired by Rust. Explains handling of borrowing — temporarily transferring ownership of parts of data structures and restoring it — and how specifications express the relationship between borrower and borrowed object throughout execution.

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