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POPL '97: Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages

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Type systems currently available for imperative languages are too weak to detect a significant class of programming errors. For example, they cannot express the property that a list is doubly-linked or circular. We propose a solution to this problem based on a notion of shape types defined as context-free graph grammars. We define graphs in set-theoretic terms, and graph modifications as multiset rewrite rules. These rules can be checked statically to ensure that they preserve the structure of the graph specified by the grammar. We provide a syntax for a smooth integration of shape types in C. The programmer can still express pointer manipulations with the expected constant time execution and benefits from the additional guarantee that the property specified by the shape type is an invariant of the program.

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