Appeal No. 1998-1518
Application No. 08/606,113
Hewlett Packard, PA-RISC 1.1 Architecture and Instruction Set Reference Manual, HP
Part No. 09740-09939, Third Edition February 1994, pp. 5-138.
Claims 1-14 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103. As evidence of obviousness,
the examiner offers Sites and Crank with regard to claims 1-4, adding Hewlett Packard
with regard to claims 5-14.
Reference is made to the brief and answer for the respective positions of
appellants and the examiner.
OPINION
It is the examiner’s position, with regard to claim 1, that Sites discloses partially
translating an original computer program to provide a translated program, executing the
translated program with an interpreter to interpret untranslated portions of the original
computer program; and automatically generating a flowgraph used for analyzing a
translated program to provide information about blocks of instructions in the flowgraph and
for generating translated instructions from the blocks of instructions. The examiner further
contends that Sites teaches that the information about the location of untranslated
instructions in an original program is discovered during execution of a partial translation of
the program but that Sites does not explicitly disclose the capability of placing debugging
code within the translated code.
The examiner cites Crank for providing runtime checking of a compiled program to
detect errors during program runtime having a debugging capability and for including a
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