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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2002
Object oriented apparatus and method for preserving stack frame identity during inlined method calls
John Gerard Nistler, Rochester, MN (US);
Mark Douglas Schroeder, Rochester, MN (US);
Robert Carl Seemann, Zumbro Falls, MN (US);
John Gerard Nistler, Rochester, MN (US);
Mark Douglas Schroeder, Rochester, MN (US);
Robert Carl Seemann, Zumbro Falls, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An object oriented mechanism and method provide exact information about the current invocation stack even when methods are inlined. A virtual stack frame mechanism determines whether a called method has been inlined, and counts both virtual frames and real frames when determining information corresponding to a called method. The virtual stack frame mechanism is preferably implemented in an object oriented class that provides methods for determining information corresponding to a called method.