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DOI: 10.4230/DARTS.8.2.3
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-162018
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2022/16201/
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Liu, Shuyang ; Bender, John ; Palsberg, Jens

Compiling Volatile Correctly in Java (Artifact)

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Abstract

The compilation scheme for Volatile accesses in the OpenJDK 9 HotSpot Java Virtual Machine has a major problem that persists despite a recent bug report and a long discussion. One of the suggested fixes is to let Java compile Volatile accesses in the same way as C/C++11. However, we show that this approach is invalid for Java. Indeed, we show a set of optimizations that is valid for C/C++11 but invalid for Java, while the compilation scheme is similar. We prove the correctness of the compilation scheme to Power and x86 and a suite of valid optimizations in Java. Our proofs are based on a language model that we validate by proving key properties such as the DRF-SC theorem and by running litmus tests via our implementation of Java in Herd7.

BibTeX - Entry

@Article{liu_et_al:DARTS.8.2.3,
  author =	{Liu, Shuyang and Bender, John and Palsberg, Jens},
  title =	{{Compiling Volatile Correctly in Java (Artifact)}},
  pages =	{3:1--3:2},
  journal =	{Dagstuhl Artifacts Series},
  ISSN =	{2509-8195},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{8},
  number =	{2},
  editor =	{Liu, Shuyang and Bender, John and Palsberg, Jens},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2022/16201},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-162018},
  doi =		{10.4230/DARTS.8.2.3},
  annote =	{Keywords: formal semantics, concurrency, compilation}
}

Keywords: formal semantics, concurrency, compilation
Collection: DARTS, Volume 8, Issue 2, Special Issue of the 36th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2022)
Issue Date: 2022
Date of publication: 23.06.2022

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