Velodrome: A sound and complete dynamic atomicity checker for multithreaded programs

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 293-303

  Flanagan, Cormac ^a   Freund, Stephen N ^b   Yi, Jaeheon ^a  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atomicity; Dynamic analysis; Serializability

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC CODES; ATOMICITY; ATOMICITY VIOLATIONS; CORRECTNESS PROPERTIES; ERROR MESSAGES; FALSE ALARMS; MULTITHREADED PROGRAMS; SERIALIZABILITY;

ALARM SYSTEMS; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTERS; ERRORS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MULTITASKING; TRACE ANALYSIS;

DYNAMIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 57349128410     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1375581.1375618     Document Type: Conference Paper

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