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@@ -11,10 +11,10 @@ Wall in Pompei, digital image from Michael Lahanis. # Aeneas -Aeneas is a compiler from LLBC, a language inspired by Rust's MIR, to pure lambda calculus. -It is intended to be used in combination with [Charon](https://github.com/Kachoc/charon), -which compiles Rust programs to LLBC, to allow the verification of Rust programs in -proof assistants. It currently has a backend for the [F\*](https://www.fstar-lang.org) +Aeneas is a verification toolchain for Rust programs. It relies on a translation from Rusts's MIR +internal language to a pure lamdba calculus. It is intended to be used in combination with +[Charon](https://github.com/Kachoc/charon), which compiles Rust programs to an intermediate +representation called LLBC. It currently has a backend for the [F\*](https://www.fstar-lang.org) theorem prover, and we intend to add backends for other provers such as [Coq](https://coq.inria.fr/), [HOL4](https://hol-theorem-prover.org/) or [LEAN](https://leanprover.github.io/). @@ -73,14 +73,11 @@ We have the following limitations, that we plan to address one by one: issue. We intend to quickly address the issue for types (i.e., allow `Option<&mut T>`), and later address it for functions (i.e., allow `f<&mut T>` - we consider this to be less urgent). -- **no nested borrows in function signatures**. See the paper for a detailed - discussion. We might allow nested borrows while forbiding what we call - "borrow overwrites" (see the paper) as a first step towards supporting this feature. +- **no nested borrows in function signatures**: ongoing work. - **no interior mutability**: long-term effort. Interior mutability introduces - true aliasing: we will probably have to combine our pure lambda calculus - with separation logic to address this. - Note that interior mutability is mostly anecdotal in sequential execution, - but necessary for concurrent execution (it is exploited by the synchronisation - primitives). + true aliasing: we will probably have to use a low-level memory model to address + this issue. + Note that interior mutability is truely necessary for concurrent execution (it + is exploited to implement the synchronisation primitives). - **no concurrent execution**: long-term effort. We plan to address coarse-grained parallelism as a long-term goal. |