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2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
The semantics of x86-CC multiprocessor machine code
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...
POPL
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Copy-on-write in the PHP language
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...
Akihiko Tozawa, Michiaki Tatsubori, Tamiya Onodera...
POPL
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Unifying type checking and property checking for low-level code
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, ...
POPL
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Speculative N-Way barriers
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, ...
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