Multiprocessors are now dominant, but real multiprocessors do not provide the sequentially consistent memory that is assumed by most work on semantics and verification. Instead, t...
Susmit Sarkar, Peter Sewell, Francesco Zappa Narde...
PHP is a popular language for server-side applications. In PHP, assignment to variables copies the assigned values, according to its so-called copy-on-assignment semantics. In con...
We present a unified approach to type checking and property checking for low-level code. Type checking for low-level code is challenging because type safety often depends on compl...
Jeremy Condit, Brian Hackett, Shuvendu K. Lahiri, ...
Speculative execution is an important technique that has historically been used to extract concurrency from sequential programs. While techniques to support speculation work well ...
Lukasz Ziarek, Suresh Jagannathan, Matthew Fluet, ...
This paper presents a type-based solution to the long-standing problem of object initialization. Constructors, the conventional mechanism for object initialization, have semantics...