Atomizer: A dynamic atomicity checker for multithreaded programs

ACM SIGPLAN Notices

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 256-267

  Flanagan, Cormac ^a   Freund, Stephen N ^b  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atomicity; Dynamic analysis; Reduction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; CONCURRENCY CONTROL; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; PROGRAM DIAGNOSTICS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ATOMICITY; MULTITHREADED PROGRAMMING; THREAD INTERFERENCE;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING;

EID: 1442312209     PISSN: 03621340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/982962.964023     Document Type: Conference Paper

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