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Iris from the ground up: A modular foundation for higher-order concurrent separation logic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 November 2018

RALF JUNG ,
ROBBERT KREBBERS ,
JACQUES-HENRI JOURDAN ,
ALEŠ BIZJAK ,
LARS BIRKEDAL  and
DEREK DREYER
RALF JUNG
Affiliation:
MPI-SWS, Germany e-mails: jung@mpi-sws.org, jjourdan@mpi-sws.org, dreyer@mpi-sws.org
ROBBERT KREBBERS
Affiliation:
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands e-mail: mail@robbertkrebbers.nl
JACQUES-HENRI JOURDAN
Affiliation:
MPI-SWS, Germany e-mails: jung@mpi-sws.org, jjourdan@mpi-sws.org, dreyer@mpi-sws.org
ALEŠ BIZJAK
Affiliation:
Aarhus University, Denmark e-mails: abizjak@cs.au.dk, birkedal@cs.au.dk
LARS BIRKEDAL
Affiliation:
Aarhus University, Denmark e-mails: abizjak@cs.au.dk, birkedal@cs.au.dk
DEREK DREYER*
Affiliation:
MPI-SWS, Germany e-mails: jung@mpi-sws.org, jjourdan@mpi-sws.org, dreyer@mpi-sws.org
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Iris is a framework for higher-order concurrent separation logic, which has been implemented in the Coq proof assistant and deployed very effectively in a wide variety of verification projects. Iris was designed with the express goal of simplifying and consolidating the foundations of modern separation logics, but it has evolved over time, and the design and semantic foundations of Iris itself have yet to be fully written down and explained together properly in one place. Here, we attempt to fill this gap, presenting a reasonably complete picture of the latest version of Iris (version 3.1), from first principles and in one coherent narrative.

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Journal of Functional Programming , Volume 28 , 2018 , e20
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