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Patent Inventor Names
Bryan M. Cantrill0
Adam H. Leventhal0
Date of Patent
May 5, 2009
0Patent Application Number
108244500
Date Filed
April 14, 2004
0Patent Primary Examiner
Patent abstract
A method for tracing an instrumented program on a processor having an x86 architecture, including triggering a probe in the instrumented program, obtaining an original instruction associated with the probe, loading the original instruction into a scratch space, loading a jump instruction for the x86 architecture into the scratch space wherein the jump instruction includes a next program counter value, executing the original instruction in the scratch space using a thread, and executing the jump instruction in the scratch space using the thread.
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