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Integrating tools for debugging and developing multitasking programs

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William F. Appelbe,

Charles E. McDowellAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 24, Issue 1

Pages 78 - 88

https://doi.org/10.1145/69215.69223

Published: 01 November 1988 Publication History

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Vanek LGogan VCulp MBerkowitz S(1990)Interactive static analysis of Ada programs9th IEEE/AIAA/NASA Conference on Digital Avionics Systems10.1109/DASC.1990.111280(165-170)Online publication date: 1990
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Integrating tools for debugging and developing multitasking programs
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Architectures
    1. Parallel architectures
      1. Multiple instruction, multiple data
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management

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Reviewer: Stephen Ronald Schach

The conventional tools for the development of parallel software, such as optimizing compilers and source-level debuggers, can adversely affect debugging. For example, a sequential product that behaves correctly may fail when it is parallelized. Another problem is that the code generated by a parallelizing compiler may be dramatically different from the original (sequential) source code, thereby complicating the debugging process. The authors suggest that a different paradigm for the development of parallel software be used, namely explicit parallelization by the user with the help of a parallelization assistant. Parallel software can then be developed within an environment that supports source-level parallel debugging. The authors have built a tool that detects static anomalies in parallel source code. They propose to integrate this tool with a parallelization assistant and then add dynamic debugging capabilities .

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 24, Issue 1

Special issue: Proceedings of the 1988 ACM SIGPLAN and SIGOPS workshop on parallel and distributed debugging

Jan. 1989

280 pages

ISSN:0362-1340

EISSN:1558-1160

DOI:10.1145/69215

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PADD '88: Proceedings of the 1988 ACM SIGPLAN and SIGOPS workshop on Parallel and distributed debugging
November 1988
282 pages
ISBN:0897912969
DOI:10.1145/68210
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/122203.122205
Vanek LGogan VCulp MBerkowitz S(1990)Interactive static analysis of Ada programs9th IEEE/AIAA/NASA Conference on Digital Avionics Systems10.1109/DASC.1990.111280(165-170)Online publication date: 1990
https://doi.org/10.1109/DASC.1990.111280
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