OperationalSemanticsC11

An operational semantics for the C/C++11 memory model.

Installation

To run or compile the project for the first time you need to run

make link

It downloads and installs dependencies (racket-pretty-printing-combinators and graph libraries), compiles and installs the project. Futher you need to run

make setup

or just make to recompile it. The project needs a version of Racket >= 6.4.

How to write and execute own examples

You need to define a term. For this purpose you should write

(define myTerm
    @prog{TERM_BODY
          })

Consider the following term:

@prog{x_rel := 0;
      y_rel := 0;
      spw
      {{{ x_rel := 1;
          r1 := y_acq;
          ret r1
      ||| y_rel := 1;
          r2 := x_acq;
          ret r2 }}} }

More or less, it corresponds to the following program in cppmem (\cite{Batty-al:POPL11}) syntax:

atomic_int x, y;
int r1, r2;
x.store(0, mo_release);
y.store(0, mo_release);
{{{ { x.store(1, mo_release);
      r1 = y.load (mo_acquire); }
||| { y.store(1, mo_release);
      r2 = x.load (mo_acquire); }
}}}

Or in \cite{Vafeiadis-Narayan:OOPSLA13} syntax:

    let x = alloc() in
    let y = alloc() in
       [x]_rel = 0;
       [y]_rel = 0;
[x]_rel = 1 || [y]_rel = 1
    [y]_acq ||     [x]_acq

In our language there are two types of identifiers, which can be used at the left hand side of an assignment --- locations and \valueName. \valueName identifiers start with r symbol, location identifiers don't start with r. One doesn't need to declare locations, the first write to a variable with appropriate name creates a location in the program state.

Spawn construction represents starting two subthreads command.

spw {{{ THREAD_0_BODY
    ||| THREAD_1_BODY
    }}}

In the runtime subthreads are represented by par construction:

par {{{ THREAD_0_BODY
    ||| THREAD_1_BODY
    }}}

More examples you can find in test/testTerms.rkt.

Structure of the project:

• core/

  • The language family syntax description (syntax.rkt).
  • Syntax related reduction rules (coreLang.rkt).
  • Concrete languages definitions (langs.rkt).
  • The language state pretty printer (pp.rkt).
  • Language related utility functions (coreUtils.rkt, syntax.rkt).
  • Graph state representation related utility functions (graphUtils.rkt).

• rules/

  Sets of different sublanguage rules.

• test/

  Test terms and tests for different sublanguages and rules combinations.