Type Inference Against Races

Abstract. The race condition checker rccjava uses a formal type system to statically identify potential race conditions in concurrent Java programs, but it requires programmer-supplied type annotations. This paper describes a type inference algorithm for rccjava. Due to the interaction of parameterized classes and dependent types, this type inference problem is NP-complete. This complexity result motivates our new approach to type inference, which is via reduction to propositional satisfiability. This paper describes our type inference algorithm and its performance on programs of up to 30,000 lines of code.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: SAS
• Authors: Cormac Flanagan, Stephen N. Freund
• Keywords: Formal Methods, SAS 2004, Type Inference, Type Inference Algorithm, Type Inference Problem