VAX architecture reference manual
VAX architecture reference manual
Some requirements for architectural support of software debugging
ASPLOS I Proceedings of the first international symposium on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Design tradeoffs to support the C programming language in the CRISP microprocessor
ASPLOS II Proceedings of the second international conference on Architectual support for programming languages and operating systems
Characterizing the synchronization behavior of parallel programs
PPEALS '88 Proceedings of the ACM/SIGPLAN conference on Parallel programming: experience with applications, languages and systems
A software instruction counter
ASPLOS III Proceedings of the third international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Supporting reverse execution for parallel programs
PADD '88 Proceedings of the 1988 ACM SIGPLAN and SIGOPS workshop on Parallel and distributed debugging
Debugging standard ML without reverse engineering
LFP '90 Proceedings of the 1990 ACM conference on LISP and functional programming
Hardware-assisted replay of multiprocessor programs
PADD '91 Proceedings of the 1991 ACM/ONR workshop on Parallel and distributed debugging
ASPLOS V Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Practical data breakpoints: design and implementation
PLDI '93 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 1993 conference on Programming language design and implementation
History cache: hardware support for reverse execution
ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News
Replay for concurrent non-deterministic shared-memory applications
PLDI '96 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 1996 conference on Programming language design and implementation
Support for Software Interrupts in Log-Based Rollback-Recovery
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Supporting nondeterministic execution in fault-tolerant systems
FTCS '96 Proceedings of the The Twenty-Sixth Annual International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing (FTCS '96)
FlashBox: a system for logging non-deterministic events in deployed embedded systems
Proceedings of the 2009 ACM symposium on Applied Computing
Tracing interrupts in embedded software
Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED conference on Languages, compilers, and tools for embedded systems
Hardware instruction counting for log-based rollback recovery on x86-family processors
ISAS'06 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Service Availability
Tracing and recording interrupts in embedded software
Journal of Systems Architecture: the EUROMICRO Journal
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We wish to determine the effectiveness of some simple hardware for debugging and profiling compiled programs on a conventional processor. The hardware cost is small -- a counter decremented on each instruction that raises an exception when its value becomes zero. With the counter a debugger can provide data watchpoints and reverse execution: a profiler can measure the total instruction cost of a code segment and sample the program counter accurately. Such a counter has been included on a single-board MC68020 workstation, for which system software is currently being written. We will report our progress at the symposium.