SPLASH 2020
Sun 15 - Sat 21 November 2020 Online Conference
Wed 18 Nov 2020 14:00 - 14:20 at SPLASH-I - W-4 Chair(s): Eric Koskinen, Justin Hsu
Thu 19 Nov 2020 02:00 - 02:20 at SPLASH-I - W-4 Chair(s): Sophia Drossopoulou, Jan Vitek

Rust's ownership type system enforces a strict discipline on how memory locations are accessed and shared.
This discipline allows the compiler to statically prevent memory errors, data races, inadvertent side effects through aliasing, and other errors that frequently occur in conventional imperative programs.
However, the restrictions imposed by Rust's type system make it difficult or impossible to implement certain designs, such as data structures that require aliasing (e.g. doubly-linked lists and shared caches).
To work around this limitation, Rust allows code blocks to be declared as \emph{unsafe} and thereby exempted from certain restrictions of the type system, for instance, to manipulate C-style raw pointers.
Ensuring the safety of unsafe code is the responsibility of the programmer.
However, an important assumption of the Rust language, which we dub the \emph{Rust hypothesis}, is that programmers use Rust by following three main principles: use unsafe code sparingly, make it easy to review, and hide it behind a safe abstraction such that client code can be written in safe Rust.

Understanding how Rust programmers use unsafe code and, in particular, whether the Rust hypothesis holds is essential for Rust developers and testers, language and library designers, as well as tool developers. This paper studies empirically how unsafe code is used in practice by analysing a large corpus of Rust projects to assess the validity of the Rust hypothesis and to classify the purpose of unsafe code. We identify queries that can be answered by automatically inspecting the program's source code, its intermediate representation MIR, as well as type information provided by the Rust compiler; we complement the results by manual code inspection.
Our study supports the Rust hypothesis partially: While most unsafe code is simple and well-encapsulated, unsafe features are used extensively, especially for interoperability with other languages.

Wed 18 Nov

Displayed time zone: Central Time (US & Canada) change

13:00 - 14:20
W-4OOPSLA at SPLASH-I +12h
Chair(s): Eric Koskinen Stevens Institute of Technology, Justin Hsu University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
13:00
20m
Talk
Adversarial Examples for Models of Code
OOPSLA
Noam Yefet Technion, Uri Alon Technion, Eran Yahav Technion
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13:20
20m
Talk
Finding Bugs in Database Systems via Query Partitioning
OOPSLA
Manuel Rigger ETH Zurich, Zhendong Su ETH Zurich
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13:40
20m
Talk
Proving Highly-Concurrent Traversals Correct
OOPSLA
Yotam M. Y. Feldman Tel Aviv University, Artem Khyzha Tel Aviv University, Constantin Enea University of Paris / IRIF / CNRS, Adam Morrison Tel Aviv University, Aleksandar Nanevski IMDEA Software Institute, Noam Rinetzky Tel Aviv University, Sharon Shoham Tel Aviv University
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14:00
20m
Talk
How Do Programmers Use Unsafe Rust?
OOPSLA
Vytautas Astrauskas ETH Zurich, Christoph Matheja ETH Zurich, Federico Poli ETH Zurich, Peter Müller ETH Zurich, Alexander J. Summers University of British Columbia
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Thu 19 Nov

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01:00 - 02:20
W-4OOPSLA at SPLASH-I
Chair(s): Sophia Drossopoulou Imperial College London, Jan Vitek Northeastern University / Czech Technical University
01:00
20m
Talk
Adversarial Examples for Models of Code
OOPSLA
Noam Yefet Technion, Uri Alon Technion, Eran Yahav Technion
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01:20
20m
Talk
Finding Bugs in Database Systems via Query Partitioning
OOPSLA
Manuel Rigger ETH Zurich, Zhendong Su ETH Zurich
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01:40
20m
Talk
Proving Highly-Concurrent Traversals Correct
OOPSLA
Yotam M. Y. Feldman Tel Aviv University, Artem Khyzha Tel Aviv University, Constantin Enea University of Paris / IRIF / CNRS, Adam Morrison Tel Aviv University, Aleksandar Nanevski IMDEA Software Institute, Noam Rinetzky Tel Aviv University, Sharon Shoham Tel Aviv University
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02:00
20m
Talk
How Do Programmers Use Unsafe Rust?
OOPSLA
Vytautas Astrauskas ETH Zurich, Christoph Matheja ETH Zurich, Federico Poli ETH Zurich, Peter Müller ETH Zurich, Alexander J. Summers University of British Columbia
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