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Dynamic Reverse Code Generation for Backward Execution

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Dynamic Reverse Code Generation for Backward Execution
The need for backward execution in debuggers has been raised a number of times. Backward execution helps a user naturally think backwards and, in turn, easily locate the cause of a bug. Backward execution has been implemented mostly by state-saving or checkpointing, which are inherently not scalable. In this paper, we present a method to generate reverse code, so that backtracking can be performed by executing reverse code. The novelty of our work is that we generate reverse code on-the-fly, while running a debugger, which makes it possible to apply the method even to debugging multi-threaded programs. Key words: debugging, reverse execution, reverse code generation
Jooyong Lee
Added 13 Dec 2010
Updated 13 Dec 2010
Type Journal
Year 2007
Where ENTCS
Authors Jooyong Lee
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