Trampoline

[Davanum Srinivas <da...@gmail.com>]

Short Story: Please take a look if you haven't already -
http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~sanseri/kaffe/k2.html

Long story: Was trying to compile Kaffe on WinXP using cygwin and ran
into some compile errors, that got me googling and led me to this nice
article on Trampolines in Kaffe. Here's the abstract:

Trampolines are springboards for just-in-time (JIT) compilation. Every
time a method is invoked, the caller looks in a dispatch table for the
address of the method's native code. If the method has not been
translated yet, the dispatch table entry points to the method's
trampoline function. When invoked, the trampoline function invokes the
translator for the method and fixes up the dispatch table to point to
the newly-loaded native code.

thanks,
dims

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Davanum Srinivas - http://webservices.apache.org/~dims/

GCJ ABI (Re: Trampoline)

[Davanum Srinivas <da...@gmail.com>]

Here's more information on GCJ ABI:
ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/summit/2004/GCJ%20New%20ABI.pdf

-- dims

On 5/16/05, Davanum Srinivas <da...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Short Story: Please take a look if you haven't already -
> http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~sanseri/kaffe/k2.html
> 
> Long story: Was trying to compile Kaffe on WinXP using cygwin and ran
> into some compile errors, that got me googling and led me to this nice
> article on Trampolines in Kaffe. Here's the abstract:
> 
> Trampolines are springboards for just-in-time (JIT) compilation. Every
> time a method is invoked, the caller looks in a dispatch table for the
> address of the method's native code. If the method has not been
> translated yet, the dispatch table entry points to the method's
> trampoline function. When invoked, the trampoline function invokes the
> translator for the method and fixes up the dispatch table to point to
> the newly-loaded native code.
> 
> thanks,
> dims
> 
> --
> Davanum Srinivas - http://webservices.apache.org/~dims/
> 


-- 
Davanum Srinivas - http://webservices.apache.org/~dims/