Reference Lifetimes in Whiley

The concept of lifetimes was pioneered in the Rust programming language, and builds on earlier notions of regions and ownership types. Lifetimes are considered one of Rust’s “most unique and compelling features”.

Encoding C Strings in Whiley

In this post, we’re going to consider representing the classic C string in Whiley. This turns out to be useful as we can then try to verify properties about functions which operate on C strings (e.

Introductory Lecture on Verification in Whiley

We’ve started using Whiley again in my second year course Formal Foundations of Programming. The aim of this course is to introduce students into a range of techniques related to software correctness.

Verification with Data from Untrusted Sources

Recently, I was listening to the latest edition of the Illegal Argument podcast, and it turns out they were discussing Whiley! (about 103:16 minutes in). The discussion was about how verification interacts with data from an untrusted source (e.

Loop Variant Relations

Proving that a loop always terminates is a common requirement when verifying software. The usual approach to doing this is to provide a loop variant function. This is typically an integer expression which decreases on every iteration of the loop.