Tutorial: Spatial Memory Safety with Dependent Types using Codex
This is the tutorial accompagnying the prototype of our OOPSLA 2024 research paper. It covers all the steps necessary to use our tool to check if a C or machine code program is exempt of spatial memory safety errors, such as null pointer dereferences, buffer overflows, or type confusion errors. It covers in particular:
- How to run the analysis on a C program, how to configure the C analysis, and how to inspect the results.
- How to run the analysis on a binary executable, how to configure the machine code analysis, and how to inspect the results.
- How to specify the types used in a C programs to refine the results of the analysis (which is generally a necessary step to obtain memory safety).