REGISTRATION-BASED REMOTE DEBUG WATCH AND MODIFY

摘要

A remote debugging technique provides anonymity of program variables and selective debugging capability by providing a registration facility by which program variables are registered locally with a debugging module. An external program then communicates with the debugging modules and observes and/or modifies the program variables by specifying either an index or a variable name. The need to publish symbols is thereby averted and only the variables that a developer is interested in observing need be registered.

主权项

1. A computer-performed method for observing data values within storage locations of a computer program during execution of the computer program within a computer system, the method comprising:
a processor of the computer system executing program instructions of the computer program that register individual ones of the storage locations with a debugging module located in the same address space as the computer program, wherein the storage locations are storage locations that store corresponding ones of the data values; receiving requests at the debugging module from an external program, wherein the requests specify particular ones of the data values corresponding to storage locations that have been registered by the registering; the debugging module retrieving the particular data values from their corresponding storage locations; the debugging module completing the requests by sending the particular data values from the debugging module to the external program; and displaying the particular data values at a display accessible by the external program.