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KCC is certainly an achievement, but it doesn't subsume Robert's work. If you look into the linked thesis you'll find that a lot of the work deals with finding high-level descriptions of the C semantics. A major part of CH2O is developing an axiomatic semantics for large parts of the C language, which is novel (as far as I know).

There are a few real gems in this thesis. In particular, I really liked the explanation of sequence points in terms of separating conjunction. This is much more compact than the imperative program to decide definedness that is implicitly described in the C standard.

The proofs of equivalence between the different semantic descriptions also go beyond what KCC does, or for that matter what you can do within the K framework (at the moment).



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