NDLI: Compiler testing via a theory of sound optimisations in the C11/C++11 memory model

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Zappa Nardelli, Francesco Morisset, Robin Pawan, Pankaj
Abstract	Compilers sometimes generate correct sequential code but break the concurrency memory model of the programming language: these subtle compiler bugs are observable only when the miscompiled functions interact with concurrent contexts, making them particularly hard to detect. In this work we design a strategy to reduce the hard problem of hunting concurrency compiler bugs to differential testing of sequential code and build a tool that puts this strategy to work. Our first contribution is a theory of sound optimisations in the C11/C++11 memory model, covering most of the optimisations we have observed in real compilers and validating the claim that common compiler optimisations are sound in the C11/C++11 memory model. Our second contribution is to show how, building on this theory, concurrency compiler bugs can be identified by comparing the memory trace of compiled code against a reference memory trace for the source code. Our tool identified several mistaken write introductions and other unexpected behaviours in the latest release of the gcc compiler.
Starting Page	187
Ending Page	196
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISSN	03621340 15581160
DOI	10.1145/2499370.2491967
Journal	ACM SIGPLAN Notices (SIGP)
Volume Number	48
Issue Number	6
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1983-05-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	C11/c++11 memory model Compiler testing
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design Software

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