iWatcher: Simple, General Architectural Support for Software Debugging

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November/December 2004 (vol. 24 no. 6)

pp. 50-56

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	Pin Zhou, Feng Qin, Wei Liu, Yuanyuan Zhou, Josep Torrellas, "iWatcher: Simple, General Architectural Support for Software Debugging," IEEE Micro, vol. 24, no. 6, pp. 50-56, November/December, 2004.

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	@article{ 10.1109/MM.2004.79, author = {Pin Zhou and Feng Qin and Wei Liu and Yuanyuan Zhou and Josep Torrellas}, title = {iWatcher: Simple, General Architectural Support for Software Debugging}, journal ={IEEE Micro}, volume = {24}, number = {6}, issn = {0272-1732}, year = {2004}, pages = {50-56}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MM.2004.79}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, }

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	TY - MGZN JO - IEEE Micro TI - iWatcher: Simple, General Architectural Support for Software Debugging IS - 6 SN - 0272-1732 SP50 EP56 EPD - 50-56 A1 - Pin Zhou, A1 - Feng Qin, A1 - Wei Liu, A1 - Yuanyuan Zhou, A1 - Josep Torrellas, PY - 2004 VL - 24 JA - IEEE Micro ER -

Pin Zhou, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Feng Qin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Wei Liu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Yuanyuan Zhou, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Josep Torrellas, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MM.2004.79

iWatcher lets programmers associate specified functions to "watched" memory locations or objects. access to any such location automatically triggers the monitoring function in the hardware. Relative to other approaches, iWatcher detects many real bugs at a fraction of the execution-time overhead.

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Pin Zhou, Feng Qin, Wei Liu, Yuanyuan Zhou, Josep Torrellas, "iWatcher: Simple, General Architectural Support for Software Debugging," IEEE Micro, vol. 24, no. 6, pp. 50-56, Nov./Dec. 2004, doi:10.1109/MM.2004.79

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