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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2004
Cheng-hsueh Hsieh, San Jose, CA (US);
Jason Dai, Shanghai, CN;
Boris Beylin, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Abstract
A method includes running a debugging tool in regard to a program which is undergoing debugging. The program may support multi-threaded operation. The method further includes presenting an option to a user via the debugging tool with respect to a program instruction in a first thread of the program. The program instruction may be for putting an item of data into a queue. The method also includes, if the user exercises the option, identifying a program instruction in a second thread of the program. The second thread is different from the first thread. The identified program instruction in the second thread may be for getting the item of data from the queue. The method further includes stopping execution of the program at the identified program instruction in the second thread.