An Operational Semantics including ‘Volatile’ for Safe Concurrency
By: John Boyland
Abstract
In this paper, we define a novel “write-key” operational semantics for a kernel language with fork-join parallelism, synchronization and “volatile” fields. We prove that programs that never suffer write-key errors are exactly those that are “data race free” and also those that are “correctly synchronized” in the Java memory model. This 3-way equivalence is proved using Twelf.
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John Boyland, “An Operational Semantics including ‘Volatile’ for Safe Concurrency”, Journal of Object Technology, Volume 8, no. 4 (June 2009), pp. 33-53, doi:10.5381/jot.2009.8.4.a2.
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