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A Formally-Verified C Compiler Supporting Floating-Point Arithmetic

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Floating-point arithmetic is known to be tricky: roundings, formats, exceptional values. The IEEE-754 standard was a push towards straightening the field and made formal reasoning about floating-point computations possible. Unfortunately, this is not sufficient to guarantee the final result of a program, as several other actors are involved: programming language, compiler, architecture. The CompCert formally-verified compiler provides a solution to this problem: this compiler comes with a mathematical specification of the semantics of its source language (ISO C90) and target platforms (ARM, PowerPC, x86-SSE2), and with a proof that compilation preserves semantics. In this paper, we report on our recent success in formally specifying and proving correct CompCert's compilation of floating-point arithmetic. Since CompCert is verified using the Coq proof assistant, this effort required a suitable Coq formalization of the IEEE-754 standard; we extended the Flocq library for this purpose. As a result, we obtain the first formally verified compiler that provably preserves the semantics of floating-point programs.
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hal-00743090 , version 1 (18-10-2012)
hal-00743090 , version 2 (25-01-2013)

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Sylvie Boldo, Jacques-Henri Jourdan, Xavier Leroy, Guillaume Melquiond. A Formally-Verified C Compiler Supporting Floating-Point Arithmetic. 2012. ⟨hal-00743090v1⟩
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