The Concurrent C Programming Language

Concurrent C is a superset of C that provides parallel programming facilities such as those for the declaring and creating processes, for process synchronization and interaction, and for process termination and abortion. Concurrent C was designed for the effective utilization of multiprocessors and multicomputers. Concurrent C, as a compile-time option, also works with C++, and object-oriented superset of C.

In this book, the authors of Concurrent C explains the basic and advanced aspects of Concurrent C , its run-time facilities and Concurrent C++; they discuss issues in concurrent programming, discuss the various models of concurrent programming and compare Concurrent C with the concurrent programming facilities in Ada. The authors give numerous real examples including several large examples. The book also contains the Concurrent C reference manual and a synopsis of C.

1. Basics
1. Processes
2. Process Parameters
3. Process Interaction & Trans. Calls
4. Process Declarations
5. Process Creation
6. Process Values and Process Ids
7. Producer-Consumer Example
8. Shared Memory Hazards
9. Program Organization Suggestions
10. Examples
11. Exercises
2. Advanced Facilities
1. Process Values & Process Management
2. The Delay Statement
3. Timed Transaction Calls
4. The Accept Statement
5. The Select Statement
6. Collective Termination
7. Transaction Pointers
8. Asynchronous Transaction Calls
9. Examples
10. Exercises
3. Run-time Environment
1. Process Ids
2. Process States
3. Process Abortion
4. Process Priority
5. Number pf Pending Transaction Calls
6. Giving Names to Process Instances
7. Processor Selection on a Multiproc.
8. Interrupts and Transactions
9. Process Stack Size
10. C and UNIX Functions
11. Exercises
4. Large Examples
1. Protocol Simulation
2. Robot Controller
3. Concurrent Make
4. Window Manager
5. Exercises
5. Concurrent C++
1. Brief Summary of C++
2. Data Abstraction & Concurrent Prog.
3. Summary
4. Exercises
6. Concurrent Programming Models
1. Concurrent C Concurrent Prog. Model
2. The Producer-Consumer Example
3. Concurrent C
4. Semaphores
5. Critical Regions
6. Monitors
7. Communicating Sequential Processes
8. Distributed Processes
9. Ada
10. Final Comments
11. Exercises
7. Concurrent Programming Issues
1. Message Passing
2. Deadlock
3. Maximizing Concurrency
4. Polling
5. Exercises
8. Discrete Event Simulation
1. The Process-Inter. Model of Sim.
2. A Two-Stage Queueing Network
3. Structure of The Simulation Program
4. Process Implementation
5. A Feedback Queueing Network
6. Extensions and Modifications

1. Concurrent C Reference Manual
1. Keywords
2. Processes and Process Interaction
3. Process Types & Trans. Declarations
4. Process Bodies
5. Process Creation
6. Process types and Ids
7. Transaction Pointers
8. Transaction Calls
9. Accept Statement
10. Delay Statement
11. Select Statements
12. Preprocessor
13. Library Functions
14. Syntax Summary
2. Concurrent C: Design and Implementation
1. Design
2. Implementation Overview
3. Comparison with Conc. Programming Ada
1. Terminology
2. The Rendezvous Model
3. An Example
4. Process Parameters
5. Process Specification And Creation
6. Synchronous vs. Async. Trans. Calls
7. Ordering Process Interaction Req.
8. Process Priorities
9. Transaction Pointers
10. Immediate Alt. of the Select Stmt.
11. Collective Process Termination
12. Miscellaneous
13. Summary
4. C: A Synopsis
1. Examples Illustrating the Language
2. Types
3. Type Declarations
4. Definitions
5. Operators
6. Control Structures
7. Functions
8. Source File Organization

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