CHESS: Documentation
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Below are the files that come with the CHESS download, converted to PDF. You can read more about CHESS at our FAQ and blog and ask questions at our forum.
- Overview
- Get started with CHESS (after installing)
- Bank: a simple example to show how to CHESS in Visual Studio 2008 to discover an atomicity violation.
- BankWithMChess:bank example, with mchess.exe
- BankWithWChess: bank example, with wchess.exe
- Manuals
- Samples
- Visual Studio 2008
- Bank: a simple example to show how to CHESS in Visual Studio to discover an atomicity violation.
- ProducerConsumerQueue: a utility that lets one or more producer threads communicate data to one or more consumer threads, using a FIFO queue of bounded capacity. We provide a bug-ridden implementation (as well as corrected code) so you can see how CHESS helps find various kinds of errors.
- mchess.exe
- BankWithMChess: a simple example to show how to use mchess.exe to discover an atomicity violation.
- SimpleBank: a variation of the Bank example that demonstrates (1) how to use ChessBoard, and (2) the role of race detection.
- RefinementExamples: demonstrates the refinement checking API of CHESS.
- ThreadPoolWait: demonstrates a nice little data race in an MSDN sample
- wchess.exe
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BankWithWChess: a simple example to show how to use wchess.exe to discover an atomicity violation.
- Visual Studio 2008



