# A Complete Decision Procedure for Linearly Compositional Separation Logic with Data Constraints

@inproceedings{Gu2016ACD,
title={A Complete Decision Procedure for Linearly Compositional Separation Logic with Data Constraints},
author={Xincai Gu and Taolue Chen and Zhilin Wu},
booktitle={IJCAR},
year={2016}
}
• Published in IJCAR 27 June 2016
• Computer Science
Separation logic is a widely adopted formalism to verify programs manipulating dynamic data structures. Entailment checking of separation logic constitutes a crucial step for the verification of such programs. In general this problem is undecidable, hence only incomplete decision procedures are provided in most state-of-the-art tools. In this paper, we define a linearly compositional fragment of separation logic with inductive definitions, where traditional shape properties for linear data…
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