Correlation system
US5555419A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 16, 1995 |
| Grant date | Sep 10, 1996 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 16, 2015 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F11/3624
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A correlation system communicates with preprocessors and a debugger in a translation system to correlate symbols and code segments of an input user program with symbols and code segments of an output executable version of the program. The correlation system stores information relating to changes to symbols and code segments made by each preprocessor in input correlation tables associated with input files and output correlation tables associated with output files of each preprocessor. The information includes pointers that depict the translations of the symbols and code segments, and information which characterizes the translations as exact, inexact or name change correlations. When the user identifies a symbol or a code segment in an output file, the debugger extracts the symbol name and code segment information from the output correlation table to identify the corresponding symbol or code segment in the input file.
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