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Automatic defect detection in multithreaded programs with pointers and recursion is a real challenge. In this paper we present a static analysis approach targeted to detection of wide range of defect types in multithreaded programs, including some types of synchronization errors. This approach is based on well-known algorithms for interval and points-to analysis, which are extended with the developed algorithms for analysis of parallel execution. We show efficiency of our approach by evaluating it on a set of artificial and real-world multithreaded C/C++ programs based on Pthreads.
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Moiseev, M. (2013). Static Analysis Approach for Defect Detection in Multithreaded C/C++ Programs. In: Gorbenko, A., Romanovsky, A., Kharchenko, V. (eds) Software Engineering for Resilient Systems. SERENE 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8166. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40894-6_14
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