POPL 2025
Sun 19 - Sat 25 January 2025 Denver, Colorado, United States

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Sun 19 Jan 2025 14:18 - 14:36 at Room 2 - Backends and Teaching

Dafny enables automated verification of heap-manipulating programs using an SMT solver, allowing verification of large, realistic codebases. However, when proofs require manual effort, the automation comes at the price of visibility into proof states, which can be challenging in the case of programs with non-local control flow. This paper presents a methodology for dealing with such programs using Lean, an interactive theorem prover. We extract straight-line programs for execution paths, embed a fragment of Dafny’s semantics into Lean, and provide a verified weakest-precondition generator. We argue for the use of Lean’s semi-manual interactive proving when dealing with difficult Dafny proofs.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Sun 19 Jan

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14:00 - 15:30
Backends and TeachingDafny at Room 2
14:00
18m
Talk
Baking for Dafny: A CakeML Backend for Dafny
Dafny
Daniel Nezamabadi Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg, Magnus O. Myreen Chalmers University of Technology
14:18
18m
Talk
Lean on Dafny: Exploring Interactive Verification of Dafny Programs in Lean
Dafny
Wojciech Różowski University College London, Georges-Axel Jaloyan Amazon Web Services, Sean McLaughlin Amazon Web Services
14:36
18m
Talk
Performant, Readable and Interoperable Rust from Dafny
Dafny
Mikael Mayer Automated Reasoning Group, Amazon Web Services, Shadaj Laddad University of California at Berkeley, Fabio Madge Automated Reasoning Group, Amazon Web Services, Siva Somayyajula Amazon Web Services, Jean-Baptiste Tristan Amazon Web Services
14:54
18m
Talk
Randomised Testing of the Dafny Compiler: Into the CI
Dafny
Karnbongkot Boonriong Imperial College London, Alastair F. Donaldson Imperial College London, Stefan Zetzsche Amazon Web Services
15:12
18m
Talk
Teaching Types and Non-Interference in Dafny
Dafny
Bryan Parno Carnegie Mellon University