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Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2024

Filed:

Jul. 10, 2020
Applicant:

Siemens Industry Software Inc., Plano, TX (US);

Inventor:

Iain Robertson, Bedford, GB;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/34 (2006.01); G06F 9/38 (2018.01); G06F 11/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/3495 (2013.01); G06F 9/3802 (2013.01); G06F 11/302 (2013.01);
Abstract

A processor supervisory unit for monitoring the program flow executed by a processor, the supervisory unit being arranged to store a set of values representing locations to which the program flow is expected to return after jumps in the program flow, the unit being capable of: in a first mode, on detecting a jump in the program flow to store a location value representing a location to which the program flow is expected to return from that jump; and in a second mode, on detecting a jump in the program flow to increment a counter associated with a location value representing a location to which the program flow is expected to return from that jump.


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