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The pitfalls of verifying floating-point computations

Abstract

Current critical systems commonly use a lot of floating-point computations, and thus the testing or static analysis of programs containing floating-point operators has become a priority. However, correctly defining the semantics of common implementations of floating-point is tricky, because semantics may change with many factors beyond source-code level, such as choices made by compilers. We here give concrete examples of problems that can appear and solutions to implement in analysis software.
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hal-00128124 , version 1 (30-01-2007)
hal-00128124 , version 2 (20-04-2007)
hal-00128124 , version 3 (29-06-2007)
hal-00128124 , version 4 (25-10-2007)
hal-00128124 , version 5 (22-05-2008)

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David Monniaux. The pitfalls of verifying floating-point computations. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS), 2008, 30 (3), pp.12. ⟨10.1145/1353445.1353446⟩. ⟨hal-00128124v5⟩
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