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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2014
Green Hills Software, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Michael Lindahl, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Andre Yew, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Mallory Morgan Green, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Michael Johnson, Goleta, CA (US);
Allan Craig Franklin, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Daniel O'Dowd, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Neil Puthuff, Ladera Ranch, CA (US);
GREEN HILLS SOFTWARE, INC., Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method finds an error in a computer program. A plurality of execution breakpoints are set in the computer program. A portion of the execution of the computer program is simulated as recorded in the trace data in the reverse order until one a plurality of conditions is met, wherein one of the plurality of conditions is an attempt to execute a machine instruction associated with one of the plurality of execution breakpoints.