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...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 51; no. 12; pp. 86 - 87
Autor principal: Rinard, Martin C.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Dec2008
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        Debugging
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      ab: 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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