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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 04, 2006
John Joseph Duffy, Renton, WA (US);
Michael M. Magruder, Sammamish, WA (US);
Goetz Graefe, Bellevue, WA (US);
David Detlefs, Westford, WA (US);
John Joseph Duffy, Renton, WA (US);
Michael M. Magruder, Sammamish, WA (US);
Goetz Graefe, Bellevue, WA (US);
David Detlefs, Westford, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that provide software transactional protection of managed pointers. A software transactional memory system interacts with and/or includes a compiler. At compile time, the compiler determines that there are one or more reference arguments in one or more code segments being compiled whose source cannot be recovered. The compiler executes a procedure to select one or more appropriate techniques or combinations thereof for communicating the sources of the referenced variables to the called code segments to ensure the referenced variables can be recovered when needed. Some examples of these techniques include a fattened by-ref technique, a static fattening technique, a dynamic ByRefInfo type technique, and others. One or more combinations of these techniques can be used as appropriate.