A Simple Sequential Reasoning Approach for Sound Modular Verification of Mainstream Multithreaded Programs

Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science

Volumn 174, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 23-47

  Jacobs, Bart ^a   Smans, Jan ^a   Piessens, Frank ^a   Schulte, Wolfram ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Aliasing; class initialization; concurrency; data races; deadlocks; immutable objects; local reasoning; modular reasoning; ownership; verification condition generation

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; CONCURRENCY CONTROL; DATA STRUCTURES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SYNCHRONIZATION;

DATA RACES; IMMUTABLE OBJECTS; LOCAL REASONING; MODULAR REASONING; SOUND MODULAR VERIFICATION; VERIFICATION CONDITION GENERATION;

CASE BASED REASONING;

EID: 34249997341     PISSN: 15710661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.entcs.2007.04.005     Document Type: Article

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