Automatic detection of core Erlang message passing errors
Joseph R. Harrison · 2018
Erlang's powerful communication model allows us to build high-level concurrent systems. These can, however, harbour subtle communication errors less severe than global deadlock or crashes: messages never received can degrade performance and consume swaths of memory. We believe that some of these errors can be quickly detected with static analysis. We have built a prototype tool which operates at the Core Erlang level to assist identification of some of these errors.