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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2008
Jonathon Michael Stall, Bothell, WA (US);
Gregg Bernard Miskelly, Seattle, WA (US);
Richard Michael Byers, Bellevue, WA (US);
Eric H. Feiveson, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jonathon Michael Stall, Bothell, WA (US);
Gregg Bernard Miskelly, Seattle, WA (US);
Richard Michael Byers, Bellevue, WA (US);
Eric H. Feiveson, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Instruction sets in computing environments may execute within one of several domains, such as a natively executing domain, an interpretively executing domain, and a debugging executing domain. These domains may store values in a shared region of memory in different ways. It may be difficult to perform operations on such values, particularly if a domain that generated a particular value cannot be identified or no longer exist, which may obstruct shared accessing of values and evaluative tasks such as stack walks. Instead, accessors may be associated with a stored value that perform various operations (such as low-level assembly instructions like Load, Store, and Compare) according to the standards of the value-generating domain, and domains may be configured to operate on the value through the accessors. This configuration may promote consistent accessing of values without having to identify or consult the value-generating domain or reconfiguring the instruction sets.