ADA concurrency specified by graph grammars

  • Manfred Jackel
Graph Grammars
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Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 246)

Abstract

We elaborate an abstract interpreter for ADA concurrency constructs. This interpreter accepts ADA programs, the abstract syntax of which is given in a graph form called program graph. The state transitions of the interpreter are formally defined by a graph grammar.

To cope with concurrency, we introduce a mixed derivation rule, which is an intermediate form between sequential and parallel graph rewriting. It is shown, that these tools basicly cover the intrinsic problems of specifying semantics with nondeterminism and concurrency. The underlying graphtheoretic concepts are adequate for a full operational semantics specification of ADA, though the work is restricted to the "hard kernel" of concurrency and synchronization.

The formal definition gives rise to some considerations concerning the precision of the textual ADA Military Standard, implementation considerations and the adequacy of some language constructs.

Keywords

Program Graph Graph Grammar Mixed Derivation Program Text Host Graph 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Manfred Jackel
    • 1
  1. 1.EWH Rheinland-PfalzKoblenz

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