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Proceedings of the sixth international symposium on Automated analysis-driven debugging table of contents

Monterey, California, USA

Pages: 83 - 88

Year of Publication: 2005

ISBN:1-59593-050-7

Authors

Bjorn De Sutter	Ghent University
Bruno De Bus	Ghent University
Michiel Ronsse	Ghent University
Koen De Bosschere	Ghent University

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
SIGSOFT: ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering
SIGPLAN: ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

We present a way to incorporate back-tracking and dynamic patching into existing debuggers, without requiring any change to their source code, the compiler or the run-time environment. An implementation on top of gdb is presented.

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