MU-CSeq 0.3 Sequentialization by read-implicit and coarse-grained memory unwindings (competition contribution)

Abstract

We describe a new CSeq module that implements improved algorithms for the verification of multi-threaded C programs with dynamic thread creation. It is based on sequentializing the programs according to a guessed sequence of write operations in the shared memory (memory unwinding, MU). The original algorithm (implemented in MU-CSeq 0.1) stores the values of all shared variables for each write (read-explicit fine-grained MU), which requires multiple copies of the shared variables. Our new algorithms store only the writes (readimplicit MU) or only a subset of the writes (coarse-grained MU), which reduces the memory footprint of the unwinding and so allows larger unwinding bounds.