TITLE

How Debuggers Work. Algorithms, Data Structures, and Architecture

AUTHOR(S) SURNAME, FORENAME

Rosenberg, Jonathan B

Places & Countries of PUBLISHERS    YEAR
Publication

New York, NY, USA        John Wiley & Sons, Inc    1996

PAGES    ISBN        BINDING    PRICE

xv+256    0-471-14966-7    Pbk    £27.50

An interesting and detailed study of the support available to a programmer to enable him to see what his (compiled) program is doing step by step and to relate this information back to his source code. At least that's the intention and how far it is achieved is discussed in relation to many different programming languages and hardware platforms.

We looked in vain for our holy grail. A wide flowcharter or diagrammer that we seek for a quite different purpose. We are interested in copyright infringements. Clearly if someone has sat down and reprogrammed an existing program in another language that is a copyright infringement and flow diagrams of both of the programs would be sufficiently similar to reveal the infringement. Lacking such a tool judges come to decisions on copyright infringements on intangible samenesses which we are far

from convinced arise from the copying of expression that constitutes a copyright infringement.

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