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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2005
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2000
Richard M. Shupak, Bellevue, WA (US);
Richard M. Shupak, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
An annotation source representation is supported by a compiler and/or linker to annotate program code, so that analysis tools, such as debuggers and profilers, have more information with which to analyze an executable program. The annotation source representation in the source code is compiled into annotation information so that the annotation remains in the executable code, but is not executed. The annotation information in the executable program is associated with the code that the annotation function is associated with. The present invention eliminates the need of parallel/companion input command files, eliminates the need of compiling a special version of the executable program for purposes of analysis, and eliminates the need of implementing debug statements in the source code.