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Efficient data breakpoints

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 27, Issue 9

Pages 200 - 212

https://doi.org/10.1145/143371.143518

Published: 01 September 1992 Publication History

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Index Terms

Efficient data breakpoints
1. General and reference
  1. Cross-computing tools and techniques
    1. Performance
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software verification and validation
      1. Software defect analysis
        Software testing and debugging
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Extra-functional properties
      1. Software performance

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 27, Issue 9

Sept. 1992

278 pages

ISSN:0362-1340

EISSN:1558-1160

DOI:10.1145/143371

Editors:
Richard L. Wexelblat,
Barry Flahive
Hewlett-Packard

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ASPLOS V: Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
September 1992
308 pages
ISBN:0897915348
DOI:10.1145/143365
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