Obtaining state information of processes of a device

An apparatus, the apparatus being an embedded-system device, comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• at least one processor coupled to the memory and configured to:
• determine a respective operational state of each of one or more processes of the embedded-system device;
• store the respective operational state of each of the one or more processes at a memory location in a respective memory area for the each process in a memory of the embedded-system device;
• store the memory locations associated with the one or more processes in a register in the memory;
• obtain, from the register, a memory location of at least one process of the one or more processes;
• and
• obtain, based on the memory location of the at least one process, the stored operational state of the at least one process from the respective memory area for the at least one process.

A computer-readable medium storing computer executable code for operating an embedded-system device, comprising code to:

• determine a respective operational state of each of one or more processes of the embedded-system device;
• store the respective operational state of each of the one or more processes at a memory location in a respective memory area for the each process in a memory of the embedded-system device;
• store the memory locations associated with the one or more processes in a register in the memory;
• obtain, from the register, a memory location of at least one process of the one or more processes;
• and
• obtain, based on the memory location of the at least one process, the stored operational state of the at least one process from the respective memory area for the at least one process.