A type and effect system for atomicity

Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI)

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 338-349

  Flanagan, Cormac ^a   Qadeer, Shaz ^b  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Atomicity; Multithreading; Race conditions; Static checking

Indexed keywords

RELIABILITY; SYNCHRONIZATION;

MULTITHREAD PROGRAMS;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 0037697288     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/781131.781169     Document Type: Conference Paper

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