Apparatus and method to debug a software program
First Claim
1. A method to debug a computer program, comprising the steps of:
- providing a computer program comprising source code;
providing a listing of said source code;
providing a first computing device comprising a first data storage medium;
storing said computer program in said first data storage medium;
executing said computer program;
detecting an error condition;
creating and saving to said first data storage medium a dump file comprising (N) save areas, reproducing the source code execution at the time said error condition was encountered.
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Abstract
A method is disclosed to debug a computer program. The method provides a computer program comprising source code, and a listing of that source code. The method further provides a computing device comprising a data storage medium, and stores the computer program in that data storage medium. The method then runs the computer program, and subsequently detects an error condition. The method creates and saves to the data storage medium a dump file comprising (N) save areas. Using information abstracted from the dump file and the source code listing, the method reproduces the source code execution at the time the error condition was detected.
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19 Claims
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1. A method to debug a computer program, comprising the steps of:
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providing a computer program comprising source code;
providing a listing of said source code;
providing a first computing device comprising a first data storage medium;
storing said computer program in said first data storage medium;
executing said computer program;
detecting an error condition;
creating and saving to said first data storage medium a dump file comprising (N) save areas, reproducing the source code execution at the time said error condition was encountered. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. An article of manufacture comprising a data storage medium and a computer useable medium having computer readable program code disposed therein to debug a computer program written to said data storage medium, said computer program comprising source code, the computer readable program code comprising a series of computer readable program steps to effect:
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executing said computer program;
detecting an error condition;
creating and saving to said data storage medium a dump file comprising (N) save areas;
reproducing the source code execution at the time said error condition was detected. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A computer program product usable with a programmable computer processor having computer readable program code embodied therein to debug a computer comprising source code, comprising:
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computer readable program code which causes said programmable computer processor to execute said computer program;
computer readable program code which causes said programmable computer processor to detect an error condition;
computer readable program code which causes said programmable computer processor to create and save to a data storage medium a dump file comprising (N) save areas, computer readable program code which causes said programmable computer processor to reproduce the source code execution at the time said error condition was detected. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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