Technical Perspective: Patching Program errors.
The article discusses another article in this issues which examines efforts of computer scientists to patch, or fix, errors in computer programs. A technique for automatically isolating and correcting such errors is presented. Topics include computer programmers who use the C program that are famili...
| Publicado en: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 51; no. 12; pp. 86 - 87 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Dec2008
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| Sumario: | The article discusses another article in this issues which examines efforts of computer scientists to patch, or fix, errors in computer programs. A technique for automatically isolating and correcting such errors is presented. Topics include computer programmers who use the C program that are familiar with out-of-bounds memory errors, randomly allocating blocks of memory larger than needed to execute a program, and the immediate generation of a patch without human interaction. Also discussed are programs that continue to operate in the face of errors. |
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