Abstract
Debuggers are traditionally used to investigate and observe the dynamic behavior of software. Reverse debuggers record a program execution and provide a method to step through the program forward and backward, to quickly locate the operation of interest. However, recording based approaches usually assume a specific method of recording the program execution. Furthermore, the recording and analysis is often linked in a certain way, so that it is not trivial, to quickly add support for new architectures or other recording tools.
To solve these shortcomings, we defined a set of essential event types, to fully capture a program execution in a platform-independent way. A prototype of the interactive trace analysis software was implemented in Java, which can handle recorded execution traces with 65 million instructions, when using a Java heap size of 16GiB for the analysis tool. To validate the platform-independence, 3 fundamentally different architectures were tested: AMD64, PowerPC, and PDP-11.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | MPLR 2020: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Managed Programming Languages and Runtimes |
| Publisher | ACM Digital Library |
| Pages | 89-97 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Nov 2020 |
Fields of science
- 102 Computer Sciences
- 102009 Computer simulation
- 102011 Formal languages
- 102013 Human-computer interaction
- 102022 Software development
- 102024 Usability research
- 102029 Practical computer science
JKU Focus areas
- Digital Transformation