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What is the underlying theory behind Coverity? Is it based on separation logic as well?


I'd be interested in this as well; all I could find on their site is that it is uses "patened techniques." Considering the first seperation logic paper was published in 2001 [1] and Coverity founded in 2002 [2], they probably did not (at least originally) use the same techniques.

I'm guessing their site is designed to sell to people and not have the details.

[1] http://fbinfer.com/docs/separation-logic-and-bi-abduction.ht... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coverity




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