| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 67 pages) : illustrations |
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Synthesis lectures on computer architecture, 1935-3243 ; #15 |
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Synthesis lectures in computer architecture ; #15.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- 1. Dynamic binary modification: overview -- Utility -- Functionality -- System performance -- High-level summary |
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2. Using a dynamic binary modifier -- Heavyweight vs. lightweight control -- JIT-mode execution -- Probe-mode execution -- Persistent binary modification -- Launching the system -- Complete process control -- Attaching to an existing process -- Programmable instrumentation -- Platform-specific behaviors -- End-user optimizations -- Debugging your plug-in tool |
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3. Program analysis and debugging -- Program analysis examples -- Parallel program analysis -- Deterministic replay -- Customizable debugging |
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4. Active program modification -- Fine-grained instruction modification -- Function replacement -- Dynamic optimization -- Sandboxing and security enforcement |
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5. Architectural exploration -- Simulation -- Trace generation -- Functional cache simulation -- Functional branch prediction simulation -- Timing simulation -- Emulation -- Supporting new instructions -- Masking hardware flaws -- Binary translation -- Design-space exploration |
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6. Advanced system internals -- Modes of execution -- Modified copy on demand -- Modification in place -- A shared address space -- Acquiring control -- Maintaining control: JIT compilation -- Storing modified code: the code cache -- Forming traces of modified code -- Code cache eviction and replacement -- Code cache introspection -- Handling self-modifying code -- The emulator -- Multithreaded program support -- Thread-shared code caches -- Generational cache replacement -- Windows execution support -- Masking overhead with parallelism -- Remaining challenges |
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7. Historical perspectives |
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8. Summary and observations -- Bibliography -- Author's biography |
| Summary |
Dynamic binary modification tools form a software layer between a running application and the underlying operating system, providing the powerful opportunity to inspect and potentially modify every user-level guest application instruction that executes. Toolkits built upon this technology have enabled computer architects to build powerful simulators and emulators for design-space exploration, compiler writers to analyze and debug the code generated by their compilers, software developers to fully explore the features, bottlenecks, and performance of their software, and even end-users to extend the functionality of proprietary software running on their computers |
| Analysis |
Dynamic binary modification |
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Instrumentation |
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Runtime optimization |
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Binary translation |
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Profiling |
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Debugging |
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Simulation |
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Security |
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User-level analysis |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 59-65) |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Software maintenance.
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Application software.
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Computer programs -- Execution.
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COMPUTERS -- Programming -- Open Source.
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COMPUTERS -- Software Development & Engineering -- General.
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COMPUTERS -- Software Development & Engineering -- Tools.
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Application software
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Computer programs -- Execution
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Software maintenance
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781608454594 |
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1608454592 |
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1608454584 |
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9781608454587 |
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9783031017322 |
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3031017323 |
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