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Verification of Causality Requirements in Java Memory Model Is Undecidable

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Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics (PPAM 2009)

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The purpose of the Java memory model is to formalize the behavior of the shared memory in multithreaded Java programs. The subtlest points of its formalization are causality requirements that serve to provide safety and security guarantees for incorrectly synchronized Java programs. In this paper, we consider the problem of verifying whether an execution of a multithreaded Java program satisfies these causality requirements and show that this problem is undecidable.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Zagreb,  

    Matko Botinčan

  2. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb,  

    Paola Glavan & Davor Runje

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  1. Institute of Computational and Information Sciences,, Czestochowa University of Technology,  

    Roman Wyrzykowski

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Tennessee, 37996-3450, Knoxville, TN, USA

    Jack Dongarra

  3. Institute of Computer and Information Science, Czestochowa University of Technology, Dabrowskiego 73, PL-42-200, Czestochowa, Poland

    Konrad Karczewski

  4. Department of Informatics and Mathematical Modeling, Technical University of Denmark, Richard Petersens Plads, Building 321, 2800, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

    Jerzy Wasniewski

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Botinčan, M., Glavan, P., Runje, D. (2010). Verification of Causality Requirements in Java Memory Model Is Undecidable. In: Wyrzykowski, R., Dongarra, J., Karczewski, K., Wasniewski, J. (eds) Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics. PPAM 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6068. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14403-5_7

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