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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 23, 1996
William B. Buzbee, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Carl D. Burch, Mountain View, CA (US);
Institute for the Development of Emerging Architectures LLC, Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Dynamic translation is used during debugging of a computer application process. The computer application process resides in a computing system in which blocks of code within a shared library are utilized by the computer application process. The blocks of code within the shared library are also available to be utilized by other applications in the system. During runtime, the computer application process is dynamically translated to produce translated code. The dynamic translation includes translation of a first block of code within the shared library to produce a translated block of code. The translated block of code is included within the translated code. Debugging code, such as a break instruction, may then be added to the translated code. Alternatively, only blocks of code within the shared library which are called by the computer application process or modified by a debugger are dynamically translated. In this alternative case, the object code for the computer application process is executed without being dynamically translated.