US 6,185,578 B2Granted

Program creation apparatus, program creation method, and recording medium containing a software program for implementing the method

AssigneeSony Corporation

InventorsYasuhiko Yokote, Junichi Nakata

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Abstract

The present invention provides a program creation apparatus for a software development system capable of deleting some of modules during an execution. A header file 30 and a source file 31 are compiled by a compiler 33 using a compile information 32 from a compile processing block 34 and the header file 30, so as to create an object file 35. Using a linker 38, a link information 37, and a library file 36, the object file 35 is linked in a link processing block 39 so as to become an execution-formatted file 40. A composite execution-formatted file information 41 provides an information about the execution-formatted file 40 to be contained in a composite execution-formatted file format file 43. According to this information, a composite execution-formatted file creation block 42 is supplied with an initialization program 78 and a plurality of execution-formatted files 40 and outputs the single composite execution-formatted file format file 43.

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Dependent claims

A program creation apparatus for creating a program to be executed by a computing apparatus, said program creation apparatus comprising:

input means for inputting at least one execution-formatted file constituted by at least one of a text section containing a program code, a data section containing a data referenced by said program code, and an additional information section containing a data not referenced by said program code;
and an internal configuration information retaining an information about at least one of said text section, said data section, and said additional information section;
text section extract means for extracting according to said internal configuration information, said text section from said execution-formatted file;
data section extract means for extracting according to said internal configuration information said data section from said execution-formatted file;
link order deciding means for deciding a link order between said text section of said execution-formatted file with said data section of said execution-formatted file;
and
internal configuration information link means that, according to said internal configuration information of said execution-formatted file, creates a link internal configuration information which is the information of said text section and said data section of said execution-formatted file which have been linked according to the order obtained from said link order deciding means.

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A program creation method for creating a program to be executed by a computing apparatus, said method comprising steps of:

inputting at least one execution-formatted file constituted by at least one of a text section containing a program code, a data section containing a data referenced by said program code, and an additional information section containing a data not referenced by said program code;
and an internal configuration information retaining an information about at least one of said text section, said data section, and said additional information section;
extracting according to said internal configuration information, said text section from said execution-formatted file;
extracting according to said internal configuration information said data section from said execution-formatted file;
deciding a link order between said text section of said execution-formatted file with said data section of said execution-formatted file;
and
according to said internal configuration information of said execution-formatted file, creating a link internal configuration information which is the information of said text section and said data section of said execution-formatted file which have been linked according to the order obtained from said link order deciding means.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.