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diff --git a/doc/index.html b/doc/index.html index 709767b..e75e7b1 100644 --- a/doc/index.html +++ b/doc/index.html @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> -<TITLE>The Compcert certified compiler back-end</TITLE> +<TITLE>The Compcert certified compiler</TITLE> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <style type="text/css"> @@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ body { margin-left: 5%; margin-right: 5%; } h2 { margin-left: -5%;} -h3,h4,h5,h6 { margin-left: -3%; } +h3 { margin-left: -3%; } +h1,h2,h3 { font-family: sans-serif; } hr { margin-left: -5%; margin-right:-5%; } a:visited {color : #416DFF; text-decoration : none; font-weight : bold} a:link {color : #416DFF; text-decoration : none; font-weight : bold} @@ -22,36 +23,41 @@ a:active {color : Red; text-decoration : underline; } </HEAD> <BODY> -<H1 align="center">The Compcert certified compiler back-end</H1> +<H1 align="center">The Compcert certified compiler</H1> <H2 align="center">Commented Coq development</H2> -<H3 align="center">Version 0.2, 2006-01-07</H3> +<H3 align="center">Version 1.0, 2007-08-03</H3> <H2>Introduction</H2> -<P>The Compcert back-end is a compiler that generates PowerPC assembly -code from a low-level intermediate language called Cminor and a -slightly more expressive intermediate language called Csharpminor. +<P>Compcert is a compiler that generates PowerPC assembly +code from Clight, a large subset of the C programming language. The particularity of this compiler is that it is written mostly within the specification language of the Coq proof assistant, and its correctness --- the fact that the generated assembly code is semantically equivalent to its source program --- was entirely proved within the Coq proof assistant.</P> -<P>A high-level overview of the Compcert back-end and its proof of -correctness can be found in the following paper:</P> -<CITE>Xavier Leroy, <A -HREF="http://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/publi/compiler-certif.pdf">Formal +<P>A high-level overview of the Compcert compiler and its proof of +correctness can be found in the following papers:</P> +<UL> +<LI>Xavier Leroy, <A +HREF="http://gallium.inria.fr/~xleroy/publi/compiler-certif.pdf">Formal certification of a compiler back-end, or: programming a compiler with -a proof assistant</A>. Proceedings of the POPL 2006 symposium.</CITE> +a proof assistant</A>. Proceedings of the POPL 2006 symposium. +<LI>Sandrine Blazy, Zaynah Dargaye and Xavier Leroy, +<A HREF="http://gallium.inria.fr/~xleroy/publi/cfront.pdf">Formal +verification of a C compiler front-end</A>. +Proceedings of Formal Methods 2006, LNCS 4085. +</UL> <P>This Web site gives a commented listing of the underlying Coq specifications and proofs. Proof scripts and the parts of the compiler written directly in Caml are omitted. This development is a -work in progress; some parts may have changed since the overview paper -above was written.</P> +work in progress; some parts have substantially changed since the +overview papers above were written.</P> <P>This document and all Coq source files referenced from it are -copyright 2005, 2006 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et +copyright 2005, 2006, 2007 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA) and distributed under the terms of the <A HREF="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html">GNU General Public License</A> version 2.</P> @@ -100,9 +106,10 @@ semantics. <H3>Source, intermediate and target languages: syntax and semantics</H3> <UL> -<!-- - <LI> <A HREF="html/Csharpminor.html">Csharpminor</A>: low-level structured language. ---> +<LI> <A HREF="html/Csyntax.html">Clight syntax</A> and its +<A HREF="html/Csem.html">semantics</A>: the source language. +<LI> <A HREF="html/Csharpminor.html">Csharpminor</A>: low-level + structured language. <LI> <A HREF="html/Cminor.html">Cminor</A>: low-level structured language, with explicit stack allocation of certain local variables. <LI> <A HREF="html/CminorSel.html">CminorSel</A>: like Cminor, @@ -138,14 +145,20 @@ code. <TH>Correctness proof</TH> </TR> -<!-- +<TR valign="top"> + <TD>Simplification of control structures; <br> + explication of type-dependent computations</TD> + <TD>Clight to Csharpminor</TD> + <TD><A HREF="html/Cshmgen.html">Cshmgen</A></TD> + <TD><A HREF="html/Cshmgenproof1.html">Cshmgenproof1</A><br> + <A HREF="html/Cshmgenproof2.html">Cshmgenproof2</A><br> + <A HREF="html/Cshmgenproof3.html">Cshmgenproof3</A></TD> <TR valign="top"> <TD>Stack allocation of local variables<br>whose address is taken</TD> <TD>Csharpminor to Cminor</TD> <TD><A HREF="html/Cminorgen.html">Cminorgen</A></TD> <TD><A HREF="html/Cminorgenproof.html">Cminorgenproof</A></TD> </TR> ---> <TR valign="top"> <TD>Recognition of operators<br>and addressing modes</TD> @@ -237,8 +250,9 @@ code. <H3>Type systems</H3> Trivial type systems are used to statically capture well-formedness -conditions on the intermediate languages. +conditions on the source and intermediate languages. <UL> +<LI> <A HREF="html/Ctyping.html">Ctyping</A>: partial typing for Clight + type-checking <LI> <A HREF="html/RTLtyping.html">RTLtyping</A>: typing for RTL + type reconstruction. <LI> <A HREF="html/LTLtyping.html">LTLtyping</A>: typing for LTL. |