公开(公告)号：US20190146777A1

公开(公告)日：2019-05-16

申请号：US16133436

申请日：2018-09-17

Applicant: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.

Inventor： Qi LIU ,  Yu ZHANG

IPC: G06F8/65 ,  G06F8/41 ,  G06F9/4401 ,  G06F9/445 ,  G06F17/22

Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure disclose a method and apparatus for generating a patch file. A specific embodiment of the method comprises: acquiring a first target file for establishing a target process, the first target file comprising a first symbol table; acquiring a second target file compiled based on a target source code file, the second target file comprising a second symbol table; determining a difference symbol between the first target file and the second target file using the first symbol table and the second symbol table; and generating a patch file based on the difference symbol. The embodiment has enriched the way to generate a patch file.