This has been done a few times, one recent example is Quark:
http://goto.ucsd.edu/quark/

On 07/11/2014 01:02 PM, Sven Kieske wrote:
> On 11.07.2014 17:58, Matt DeMoss wrote:
>> For legacy code, what about sandboxing it and then proving 
>> something about the sandbox? Not sure if that's really in the 
>> spirit of verification you had in mind.
> Well if your sandbox would be proven to be secure there is still
> the problem: How does the legacy code behave inside the sandbox? Is
> it acceptable that it maybe just breaks when the sandbox refuses to
> do $x ? So to my understanding you must not just prove the sandbox
> itself, rather show that the interaction between sandbox and legacy
> code are "ok".
> 
> Without going into details or a specific example I still got the
> feeling this could be more complex than just proving the legacy
> code/rewrite that code.
> 
> kind regards
> 
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