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+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2011, 2012 Free Software Foundation,
+Inc."]]
+
+[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
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+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
+Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
+
+*Formal verification* ([[!wikipedia Formal_verification desc="Wikipedia
+article"]]) deals with formally reasoning about a program's correctness.
+
+Especially in the field of [[DSL]]s, this is used for asserting program codes'
+correctness, as explained in {{$microkernel/barrelfish#fof_plos09}}, for
+example.
+
+See also [[code_analysis]].
+
+[[!toc]]
+
+
+# Issues
+
+ * [[locking_issues]]
+
+ * [[term_blocking]]
+
+
+# Bounty
+
+There is a [[!FF_project 276]][[!tag bounty]] on some of these tasks.