Atomic semantics of nonatomic programs

DOI10.1016/0020-0190(88)90171-8MaRDI QIDQ1111361zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors James H. Anderson, Mohamed G. Gouda

Publication date 1988

Published in Information Processing Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0020-0190(88)90171-8

zbMATH Keywords

atomicityconcurrencyinterleaving semanticsnonatomic operationshared register

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Specification and verification (program logics, model checking, etc.) (68Q60) Abstract data types; algebraic specification (68Q65)

Review text

We argue that it is possible, and sometimes useful, to reason about nonatomic programs within the conventional atomic model of concurrency.

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