What are race conditions?: Some issues and formalizations
ACM Letters on Programming Languages and Systems (LOPLAS)
PPOPP '93 Proceedings of the fourth ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Principles and practice of parallel programming
Points-to analysis in almost linear time
POPL '96 Proceedings of the 23rd ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages
Eraser: a dynamic data race detector for multi-threaded programs
Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
A conservative data flow algorithm for detecting all pairs of statements that may happen in parallel
SIGSOFT '98/FSE-6 Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Unification-based pointer analysis with directional assignments
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OOPSLA '01 Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
Efficient and precise datarace detection for multithreaded object-oriented programs
PLDI '02 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2002 Conference on Programming language design and implementation
RacerX: effective, static detection of race conditions and deadlocks
SOSP '03 Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Effective static race detection for Java
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming language design and implementation
LOCKSMITH: context-sensitive correlation analysis for race detection
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming language design and implementation
Static detection of access anomalies in ada95
Ada-Europe'06 Proceedings of the 11th Ada-Europe international conference on Reliable Software Technologies
Bauhaus: a tool suite for program analysis and reverse engineering
Ada-Europe'06 Proceedings of the 11th Ada-Europe international conference on Reliable Software Technologies
A review of race detection mechanisms
CSR'06 Proceedings of the First international computer science conference on Theory and Applications
Detecting high-level synchronization errors in parallel programs
Ada-Europe'11 Proceedings of the 16th Ada-Europe international conference on Reliable software technologies
Static versioning of global state for race condition detection
Ada-Europe'10 Proceedings of the 15th Ada-Europe international conference on Reliable Software Technologies
Effective pattern-driven concurrency bug detection for operating systems
Journal of Systems and Software
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Creating multiple threads for performance gain is not only common for complex computations on supercomputers but also for ordinary application programs. Multi-threaded/parallel programs have many advantages but also introduce new types of errors that do not occur in purely sequential programs. Race conditions are one important class of these special problems because the effects of race conditions occur nondeterministically and range from incorrect results to unexpected program behaviour. This paper presents RCanalyser, a tool for the detection of race conditions, which is based on a Must_Locksanalysis using a flexible interface for the integration of different points-to analyses. As the problem of detecting race conditions is NP-hard in the general case, the tool is restricted to the detection of so-called data races [1]. The tool is able to analyse C/C++programs that use thread APIs for the implementation and synchronization of concurrent units. We applied the tool to a set of real programs, which use the POSIX thread API, and present results and statistics.