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System and method for providing checkpointing with precompile directives and supporting software to produce checkpoints, independent of environment constraints

  • US 6,161,219 A
  • Filed: 07/03/1997
  • Issued: 12/12/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/03/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for portable checkpointing comprising the steps of:

  • pre-compiling an input source code of a selected programming language; and

    outputting an associated output source code which includes support for portable checkpointing, wherein the portable checkpointing provides a first portable checkpoint, and wherein said associated output source code using the first portable checkpoint can be executed on a destination platform that is not limited by (a) programming language restrictions of the selected programming language, (b) operating system level variations and (c) processor restrictions including memory page size, firmware byte-ordering and word size.

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