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Tue 20 Jun 2017 16:10 - 16:35 at Actes, Civil Engineering - Correctness Chair(s): Joseph Devietti

The C/C++11 memory model defines the semantics of concurrent memory accesses in C/C++, and in particular supports racy “atomic” accesses at a range of different consistency levels, from very weak consistency (“relaxed”) to strong, sequential consistency (“SC”). Unfortunately, as we observe in this paper, the semantics of SC atomic accesses in C/C++11, as well as in all proposed strengthenings of the semantics, is flawed, in that both suggested compilation schemes to Power are unsound. We propose a better semantics for SC accesses that restores the soundness of the compilation schemes to Power, maintains the DRF-SC guarantee, and provides stronger, more useful, guarantees to SC fences. In addition, we formally prove, for the first time, the correctness of the proposed stronger compilation schemes to Power that preserve load-to-store ordering and avoid “thin-air” reads.

Tue 20 Jun

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16:10 - 17:00
CorrectnessPLDI Research Papers at Actes, Civil Engineering
Chair(s): Joseph Devietti University of Pennsylvania
16:10
25m
Talk
Repairing Sequential Consistency in C/C++11
PLDI Research Papers
Ori Lahav MPI-SWS, Viktor Vafeiadis MPI-SWS, Germany, Jeehoon Kang Seoul National University, Chung-Kil Hur Seoul National University, Derek Dreyer MPI-SWS
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16:35
25m
Talk
Taming Undefined Behavior in LLVM
PLDI Research Papers
Juneyoung Lee Seoul National University, Yoonseung Kim Seoul National University (South Korea), Youngju Song Seoul National University, Chung-Kil Hur Seoul National University, Sanjoy Das Azul Systems, David Majnemer Google, John Regehr University of Utah, Nuno P. Lopes Microsoft Research
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