Semantic type qualifiers

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

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 85-95

  Chin, Brian ^a   Markstrum, Shane ^a   Millstein, Todd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Extensible typechecking; Type qualifiers; Type soundness

Indexed keywords

EXTENSIBLE TYPECHECKING; TYPE QUALIFIERS;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; FORMAL LANGUAGES;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 31744433927     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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