ANALYSIS OF EXECUTABLE PROGRAM CODE USING COMPILER-GENERATED FUNCTION ENTRY POINTS AND ENDPOINTS WITH OTHER SOURCES OF FUNCTION ENTRY POINTS AND ENDPOINTS
Patent №
US 6,817,014
Granted
2004-11-09
Filed 2001
Owner
HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY
Lab
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AI components
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hardware
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
09833249
Method and apparatus for analysis of executable program code. The executable program includes segments of code that correspond to callable functions in the source code from which the executable code was generated. Compiler-generated checkpoint descriptors are included in the executable and include pairs of entry points and endpoints. Each pair of entry points and endpoints is associated with a callable function in the source code. The pairs of entry points and endpoints are read from the executable program code and used to generate analysis data for the associated functions. In other embodiments, pairs of entry points and endpoints are additionally assembled from dynamic load modules and symbol tables.
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Ownership
HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY
assignment · 121820079
Assignors
HUNDT, ROBERT, RAMASAMY, VINODHA, RIVERA, JOSE GERMAN, KRISHNASWAMY, UMESH
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