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2011-08-23

2011-08-23

Deng, Anna (Department: 2191)

Data processing: software development, installation, and managem

Software program development tool

Editing

Reexamination Certificate

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08006227

ABSTRACT:
Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for creating and/or locating transactional code blocks in a transactional memory system. A user such as a software developer can decorate a particular function with an identifier to indicate that the particular function is transaction-safe. A normal version and a transactional version are then created for each function of a software application that is marked as transaction-safe. A normal version is created for each function that is not marked as transaction-safe. For the normal version of each function that is marked as transaction-safe, a stub pointer in the normal version is pointed to the transactional version. The proper version of the function is then called depending on the execution context.

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