Inventors:
Venkatesh Radhakrishnan - Cupertino CA, US
Poorva Gupta - Cupertino CA, US
International Classification:
G06F009/44
Abstract:
A method of debugging a software program is disclosed. The method includes ascertaining one of a minimal symbol and a partial symbol associated with a first symbol required for the debugging. The method further includes ascertaining a partial symbol table associated with the one of the minimal symbol and the partial symbol. The method additional includes updating, if there exists a symbol table corresponding to the partial symbol table, a usage indicator associated with the symbol table and employing the symbol table to provide the first symbol for the debugging. The usage indicator indicates a usage level of the symbol table relative to other symbol tables in the computer system.