A Concurrent Semantics of Static Exceptions in a Parallel Programming Language

  • Authors:
  • Hanna Klaudel;Franck Pommereau

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ICATPN '01 Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

This paper aims at introducing a mechanism of exceptions in a parallel programming language, giving them a formal concurrent semantics in terms of preemptible and composable high-level Petri nets. We show that, combined with concurrency, exceptions can be used as a basis for other preemption related constructs. We illustrate this idea by presenting a generalized timeout and a simple UNIX-like system of concurrent preemptible threads.