Patent ID: 8769495
Filing Date: 2014-07-01
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of remotely debugging target programs running on a plurality of different types of target processors, the method comprising: providing, from a principal processor in communication with the plurality of target processors, a plurality of instruction set specific debugging instructions for a plurality of different instruction sets, wherein: executing, on the principal processor, a principal debugger; monitoring, by the principal debugger, an initiation of a target program of a shared application on a target processor of the plurality of target processors, wherein the shared application comprises a plurality of target programs that are only being executed by the plurality of target processors; communicating, from the principal debugger, with the target processor initiating the target program to determine the type of the target processor; selecting, by the principal debugger, debugging instructions from the plurality of instruction set specific debugging instructions based upon the identified type of the target processor, the selected debugging instructions are native to the instruction set of the target processor; creating, by the principal debugger, a secondary debugger for the target program; and inserting, by the secondary debugger, the selected debugging instructions into the target program.