Developing a Generic Debugger for Advanced-Dispatching Languages

Haihan Yin; Christoph Bockisch

Developing a Generic Debugger for Advanced-Dispatching Languages

Haihan Yin, Christoph Bockisch

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Abstract

Programming-language research has introduced a considerable number of advanced-dispatching mechanisms in order to improve modularity. Advanced-dispatching mechanisms allow changing the behavior of a function without modifying their call sites and thus make the local behavior of code less comprehensible. Debuggers are tools, thus needed, which can help a developer to comprehend program behavior but current debuggers do not provide inspection of advanced- dispatching-related language constructs. In this paper, we present a debugger which extends a traditional Java debugger with the ability of debugging an advanced-dispatching language constructs and a user interface for inspecting this.

Original language	Undefined
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Academic Software Development Tools and Techniques
Place of Publication	Antwerp, Belgium
Publisher	WASDeTT
Pages	-
Number of pages	21
ISBN (Print)	not assigned
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	Third International Workshop on Academic Software Development Tools and Techniques, Antwerp, Belgium: Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Academic Software Development Tools and Techniques - Antwerp, Belgium Duration: 1 Jan 2010 → …

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Publisher	WASDeTT

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Conference	Third International Workshop on Academic Software Development Tools and Techniques, Antwerp, Belgium
City	Antwerp, Belgium
Period	1/01/10 → …

Keywords

Debugger
MSC-68N20
Advanced dispatching
METIS-278701
EWI-19540
Eclipse plug-in
IR-75901

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http://www.info.fundp.ac.be/wasdett2010/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/YB-WASDeTT3.pdf

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Yin, H & Bockisch, C 2010, Developing a Generic Debugger for Advanced-Dispatching Languages. in Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Academic Software Development Tools and Techniques. WASDeTT, Antwerp, Belgium, pp. -, Third International Workshop on Academic Software Development Tools and Techniques, Antwerp, Belgium, Antwerp, Belgium, 1/01/10. <http://www.info.fundp.ac.be/wasdett2010/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/YB-WASDeTT3.pdf>

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