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UPC-CompilerCheck: A Tool for Evaluating Error Detection Capabilities of UPC Compilers

Authors:
Marina Kraeva
James Coyle
Glenn Luecke
Indranil Roy
Elizabeth Kleiman
James Hoekstra

Keywords: Languages; UPC; compile-time error detection

Abstract:
The ability of system software to detect compiletime errors and issue messages that help programmers quickly fix these errors is an important productivity criterion for developing and maintaining application programs. To evaluate this capability for Unified Parallel C (UPC) compilers, 3141 Compile-Time Error Detection (CTED) tests and a CTED evaluation tool, called UPC-CompilerCheck, have been developed. UPC-CompilerCheck assigns a score from 0 to 5 for each compiler-generated error message based on the usefulness of the information in the message to help a programmer fix the error quickly. This tool also calculates average scores for each error category and then prints the results. Compiler vendors could use UPC-CompilerCheck to evaluate and improve the compile-time error detection capabilities of their UPC compilers. All tests, UPC-CompilerCheck and test results for the Berkeley, Cray, GNU and HP UPC compilers are freely available.

Pages: 28 to 33

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: July 22, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4170

ISBN: 978-1-61208-222-6

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from July 22, 2012 to July 27, 2012