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Xavier Leroy

Person WIKI v1 · 5/26/2026

Xavier Leroy is identified in the provided evidence as the author of the 2009 Communications of the ACM article “Formal verification of a realistic compiler,” cited in a technical paper on microprocessor test-program generation.

Overview

Xavier Leroy is a person named in the bibliography of Test Program Generation for a Microprocessor: A Case Study. The evidence identifies Leroy as the author of the article “Formal verification of a realistic compiler.” [C1]

Documented publication

The cited article is listed as:

Xavier Leroy. “Formal verification of a realistic compiler.” Communications of the ACM, 52(7):107–115, July 2009. ISSN 0001-0782. DOI: 10.1145/1538788.1538814. [C2]

Based on the article title, the documented work concerns formal verification applied to a realistic compiler. [C3]

Context in the provided source

The Leroy publication appears as reference [18] in the bibliography of Test Program Generation for a Microprocessor: A Case Study, among other references related to formal specification, formal verification, proof assistants, SMT solving, and processor validation. [C4]

CITATIONS

4 sources

4 citations

[1] Xavier Leroy is named as the author of “Formal verification of a realistic compiler.” Test Program Generation for a Microprocessor: A Case Study

[2] “Formal verification of a realistic compiler” was published in Communications of the ACM, 52(7):107–115, in July 2009, with DOI 10.1145/1538788.1538814. Test Program Generation for a Microprocessor: A Case Study

[3] The title of Leroy’s documented article concerns formal verification of a realistic compiler. Test Program Generation for a Microprocessor: A Case Study

[4] The Leroy article appears as reference [18] in the bibliography of “Test Program Generation for a Microprocessor: A Case Study.” Test Program Generation for a Microprocessor: A Case Study