SEntre: A dynamic binary instrumentation infrastructure

Author

Peng, Fei ; Gao, Xiang ; Gu, Naijie ; Qiu, Ji

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Univ. of Sci. & Technol. of China, Hefei, China

fYear

2011

fDate

9-11 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

1016

Lastpage

1019

Abstract

Dynamic binary instrumentation tools play a very important role in program analysis. The information gathered by these tools is quite useful in software development, testing, debugging, simulation and optimization. SEntre is such an instrumentation system with the features of efficiency, ease-to-use interface, transparency and comprehensiveness. To obtain good performance, we employ instrumentation while copying (IWC) mechanism. The interface provided by SEntre is very simple but powerful. User can develop different tools based on SEntre. To illustrate SEntre´s versatility, we describe two tools, one is used to obtain memory access address and the other is an extremely fast simulator.

Keywords

program debugging; program diagnostics; program testing; software tools; SEntre; dynamic binary instrumentation infrastructure; dynamic binary instrumentation tool; instrumentation while copying mechanism; memory access address; program analysis; software debugging; software development; software optimization; software simulation; software testing; Aerospace electronics; Context; Educational institutions; Instruments; Integrated circuit modeling; Registers; Runtime; instrumentation; instrumentation model; program analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics, Communications and Control (ICECC), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Ningbo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0320-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECC.2011.6066387

Filename

6066387