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PPOPP
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Using data structure knowledge for efficient lock generation and strong atomicity
To achieve high-performance on multicore systems, sharedmemory parallel languages must efficiently implement atomic operations. The commonly used and studied paradigms for atomici...
Gautam Upadhyaya, Samuel P. Midkiff, Vijay S. Pai
AADEBUG
1997
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Assertions for Dynamic Shape Analysis of List Data Structures
We introduce an assertion language for run-time checking of linked list data structure shapes. The assertion language is expressive enough to define characteristic predicates for ...
Mikhail Auguston, Miu Har Hon
ECOOP
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Non-null References by Default in Java: Alleviating the Nullity Annotation Burden
With the advent of Java 5 annotations, we note a marked increase in the availability of tools that can statically detect potential null dereferences. For such tools to be truly eff...
Patrice Chalin, Perry R. James
IWMM
2010
Springer
173views Hardware» more  IWMM 2010»
14 years 6 days ago
CETS: compiler enforced temporal safety for C
Temporal memory safety errors, such as dangling pointer dereferences and double frees, are a prevalent source of software bugs in unmanaged languages such as C. Existing schemes t...
Santosh Nagarakatte, Jianzhou Zhao, Milo M. K. Mar...
POPL
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Masked types for sound object initialization
This paper presents a type-based solution to the long-standing problem of object initialization. Constructors, the conventional mechanism for object initialization, have semantics...
Xin Qi, Andrew C. Myers