A Hybrid Model in Dynamic Software Updating for C

The aim has been to develop a model for dynamic updating of software. A major difficulty with dynamic updating is the execution time overhead required for running the extra code embedded within the updatable version of the program. In order to resolve the difficulty, the dynamic updating model, suggested in this paper, activates the updatable version whenever updates are ready. When the updating is finished, the execution carries on with a newly updated program in which there is not any extra code for dynamic updating. Since the Updatable version of the program is created at run-time, the proposed model not only increases the performance of the system, but also enables us to update programs that have been compiled and executed without any dynamic updating considerations, before. Our experimental results demonstrate the applicability and performance of the proposed model.