Bug#617551: ITP: spark -- SPARK programming language tools
Євгеній Мещеряков wrote:
> SPARK is a programming language and a set of software development
> products for high assurance software. The SPARK programming language
> is the only language specifically designed to support the development
> of safety or security critical software. In combination with the SPARK
> toolset, SPARK prevents, detects and eliminates defects early in the
> lifecycle as the source code is developed. It is, effectively, the
> result of applying the principles of Correctness by Construction to
> the design of a programming language and associated verification
> tools.
>
> This package contains tools for verification of programs written in
> SPARK. To compile SPARK programs use Ada compiller available in
> package 'gnat'.
I would say "This package contains the tools necessary for checking
if programs adhere to the SPARK rules and the tools to show freedom
of runtime exceptions in those programs."
And then also say: "To compile SPARK programs use any standards-compliant
Ada compiler, such as GNAT."
(One of the design principles of SPARK was to have an unambigous subset
of Ada so that one is not tied to a particular compiler and that reasoning
about it is sound.)
Florian
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