A general-purpose algorithm for analyzing concurrent programs

  • Authors:
  • Richard N. Taylor

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of California, Irvine

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1983

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Abstract

Developing and verifying concurrent programs presents several problems. A static analysis algorithm is presented here that addresses the following problems: how processes are synchronized, what determines when programs are run in parallel, and how errors are detected in the synchronization structure. Though the research focuses on Ada, the results can be applied to other concurrent programming languages such as CSP.