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Investigating the limits of rely/guarantee conditions based on a concurrent garbage collector example

Lookup NU author(s): Emeritus Professor Cliff JonesORCiD, Dr Nisansala Yatapanage

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Abstract

Decomposing the design (or documentation) of large systems is a practical necessity;finding compositional development methods for concurrent software is technically challenging.This paper includes the development of a difficult example in order to draw out lessons about such methods.The concurrent garbage collector development is interesting in several ways;in particular, the final step of its development appears to be just beyond what can be expressed by rely/guarantee conditions.This facilitates an exploration of the limitations of this well-known method.Although the rely/guarantee approach is used, the lessons are more general.

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Author(s): Jones C, Yatapanage Nisansala

Publication type: Report

Publication status: Published

Series Title: School of Computing Technical Report Series

Year: 2018

Pages: 27

Print publication date: 27/06/2018

Online publication date: 04/07/2018

Acceptance date: 02/04/2018

Report Number: 1521

Institution: School of Computing, Newcastle University

Place Published: Newcastle upon Tyne

URL: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/media/wwwnclacuk/schoolofcomputingscience/files/trs/1521.pdf

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