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NewSpeak is a language for programming real-time safety-critical systems. Its distinguishing feature is the property of unexceptionality— the property that any successfully compiled program will not raise a runtime exception. In this paper we describe a denotational semantics for NewSpeak written in VDM-SL, which ensures that it is unexceptional. We also discuss the implications of using VDM-SL for the semantic definitions, from the point of view of development of specifications.
Work partially supported by Science and Engineering Research Council and National Physical Laboratory.
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Mukherjee, P. (1994). A semantics for NewSpeak in VDM-SL. In: Naftalin, M., Denvir, T., Bertran, M. (eds) FME '94: Industrial Benefit of Formal Methods. FME 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 873. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58555-9_111
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