Concurrency bug linter

The goal of this program is to highlight variables that are shared by multiple threads. The use of those variables could potentially be the root cause of a concurrency bug. Note that this tool does not point out bugs. You will have to manually triage warnings.

This program relies on sparse and cJSON.

Before your first build, run git submodule init && git submodule update, then type make to build this program.

Before running this program, you will need two things:

• provide a list of threads in a JSON file

• provide a compilation database file

  So let's assume the program to be analyzed contains two threads: threadA and threadB, then the thread configuration file can look like:

[
    {"name":"threadA", "file":"absolute-path-to-my-file", "line":23},
    {"name":"threadB", "file":"absolute-path-to-my-file", "line":45}
]

To run this program:

./concurrency-bug-linter <thread-config-file> <compile-commands>