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

AI components

1

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.

AI classification

AI hardware1.00
Knowledge representation0.07
Natural language0.01
Machine learning0.00
Planning0.00
Vision0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY

assignment · 121820079

Assignors

HUNDT, ROBERT, RAMASAMY, VINODHA, RIVERA, JOSE GERMAN, KRISHNASWAMY, UMESH

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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