Pancake: Verified Systems Programming Made Sweeter
Paper in proceeding, 2023
We introduce Pancake, a new language for verifiable, low-level systems programming, especially device drivers. Pancake eschews complex type systems to make the language attractive to systems programmers, while at the same time aiming to ease the formal verification of code. We describe the design of the language and its verified compiler, and examine its usability, performance and current limitations through case studies of device drivers and related systems components for an seL4-based operating system.
Author
Johannes Åman Pohjola
University of New South Wales (UNSW)
Hira Taqdees Syeda
Amazon.com, Inc.
Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Formal methods
Miki Tanaka
University of New South Wales (UNSW)
Krishnan Winter
University of New South Wales (UNSW)
Tsun Wang Sau
University of New South Wales (UNSW)
Benjamin Nott
University of New South Wales (UNSW)
Tiana Tsang Ung
University of New South Wales (UNSW)
Craig McLaughlin
University of New South Wales (UNSW)
Remy Seassau
University of Oxford
University of New South Wales (UNSW)
Magnus Myreen
Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Formal methods
M. Norrish
Australian National University
Gernot Heiser
University of New South Wales (UNSW)
PLOS 2023 - Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Part of: SOSP 2023
1-9
9798400704048 (ISBN)
12th Workshop on Programming Languages and Operating Systems, PLOS 2023
Koblenz, Germany,
Koblenz, Germany,
Subject Categories
Computer and Information Science
Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
DOI
10.1145/3623759.3624544