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Mechanized verification of CPS transformations

Abstract

Transformation to continuation-passing style (CPS) is often performed by optimizing compilers for functional programming languages. As part of the development and proof of correctness of a compiler for the mini-ML functional language, we have mechanically verified the correctness of two CPS transformations for a call-by-value lambda-calculus with n-ary functions, recursive functions, data types and pattern-matching. The transformations generalize Plotkin's original call-by-value transformation and Danvy and Nielsen's optimized transformation, respectively. We used the Coq proof assistant to formalize the transformations and conduct and check the proofs. Originalities of this work include the use of big-step operational semantics to avoid difficulties with administrative redexes, and of two-sorted de Bruijn indices to avoid difficulties with alpha-conversion.
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inria-00289541 , version 1 (21-06-2008)

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Zaynah Dargaye, Xavier Leroy. Mechanized verification of CPS transformations. Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning, 14th Int. Conf. LPAR 2007, Oct 2007, Erevan, Armenia. pp.211-225, ⟨10.1007/978-3-540-75560-9_17⟩. ⟨inria-00289541⟩

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