Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.p.

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Poorva Gupta

Venkatesh Radhakrishnan

A method, system and apparatus for debugging in a multiprocessor environment. The system includes a principal processor which remotely debugs target programs running on a plurality of different target processors. The different types of target processors differ with respect to their instruction sets. The principal processor debugs the target programs and is configured to provide a plurality of debugging instructions specific to each instruction set, determine the type of target processor executing a target program to be debugged, select among the debugging instructions specific to each instruction set based upon the identified type of target processor, and insert the selected debugging instructions into the target program.

Systems and methods for debugging in a multiprocessor environment

A method of debugging a set of processes is disclosed. There is included providing a first debugger and forking the debugger, thereby creating a set of inner debuggers and an outer debugger. Each of the set of inner debuggers is configured to debug one of the set of processes. There is also included employing the outer debugger to interact with the set of inner debuggers to debug the set of processes.

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Cupertino, CA, United States of America

Poorva Gupta