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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Cary L. Bates, Rochester, MN (US);
Lee Helgeson, Rochester, MN (US);
Justin K. King, Rochester, MN (US);
Michelle A. Schlicht, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Method and apparatus for enhancing an executable is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the method includes instrumenting an executable with additional program code to detect run-time errors, and while running the instrumented executable within a debug environment generating the run-time errors detected by the additional program code, upon reaching a breakpoint, identifying any of the run-time errors which occurred while executing a function in which the breakpoint is located, and transmitting an indication of the identified run-time errors to the debugging environment.