International Business Machines Corporation

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Brad J Barclay

Emad Boctor

Andrew William Hilden

Darin C McBride

The placement of trace points in software code being developed in a software development tool leads to the generation of trace point messages when the code is executed. These trace point messages are listened for by aspects of the software development tool. Responsive to receiving one of the trace point messages, the software development tool may write information to a trace file. Advantageously, the trace file is formatted using a standard markup language format, such as HTML. Consequently, the trace file is readily readable (including information-conveying formatting) by a standard, freely available web browser, rather than a proprietary tool.

Dynamic generation of program execution trace files in a standard markup language

A code execution mechanism is provided which can direct a data processing system to execute native code in place of executing non-native code, in which the native code is functionally equivalent to the non-native code. The data processing system is operatively coupled to a computer readable memory for storing the functionally equivalent native code and for storing the non-native code. The code execution mechanism directs the data processing system to identify presence of the native code when the native code functionally corresponds with a portion of non-native code, and directs the data processing system to execute the native code in place of the non-native code if the presence of the native code is identified. When non functionally equivalent native code is identified, the data processing system executes the non-native code.

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Brad J Barclay