Reasoning on Dynamic Transformations of Symbolic Heaps

Abstract

Building on previous results concerning the decidability of the satisfiability and entailment problems for separation logic formulas with inductively defined predicates, we devise a proof procedure to reason on dynamic transformations of memory heaps. The initial state of the system is described by a separation logic formula of some particular form, its evolution is modeled by a finite transition system and the expected property is given as a linear temporal logic formula built over assertions in separation logic.