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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2018.25
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-92303
URL: https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2018/9230/
Milanova, Ana
Definite Reference Mutability
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Abstract
Reference immutability type systems such as Javari and ReIm ensure that a given reference cannot be used to mutate the referenced object. These systems are conservative in the sense that a mutable reference may be mutable due to approximation. In this paper, we present ReM (for definite Re[ference] M[utability]). It separates mutable references into (1) definitely mutable, and (2) maybe mutable, i.e., references whose mutability is due to inherent approximation. In addition, we propose a CFL-reachability system for reference immutability, and prove that it is equivalent to ReIm/ReM, thus building a novel framework for reasoning about correctness of reference immutability type systems. We have implemented ReM and applied it on a large benchmark suite. Our results show that approximately 86.5% of all mutable references are definitely mutable.
BibTeX - Entry
@InProceedings{milanova:LIPIcs:2018:9230,
author = {Ana Milanova},
title = {{Definite Reference Mutability}},
booktitle = {32nd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2018)},
pages = {25:1--25:30},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-079-8},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2018},
volume = {109},
editor = {Todd Millstein},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2018/9230},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-92303},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2018.25},
annote = {Keywords: reference immutability, type inference, CFL-reachability, precision}
}
| Keywords: | reference immutability, type inference, CFL-reachability, precision | |
| Seminar: | 32nd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2018) | |
| Issue date: | 2018 | |
| Date of publication: | 10.07.2018 | |
| Supplementary Material: | ECOOP Artifact Evaluation approved artifact available at http://dx.doi.org/10.4230/DARTS.4.3.7 |
