1 Nov
2004
1 Nov
'04
10:29 a.m.
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 07:32:06PM -0600, ben franchuk wrote:
Peter C. Wallace wrote:
I'm not sure if this fits his usage of the word here, but in the Redboot
boot loader (part of the eCos operating system), they use something they
call a trampoline to start a program loaded into ram.
Isn't self modifying code pretty much
deprecated these days (aside from
trampolines and such)
So what is a trampoline? I have yet to see a good use for self-modifying code.
Other than
subroutines and interupts placing data into a code segement the only
self modifying code I have seen was for the 8088.
Wouldn't JIT compilers be essentially self modifying code?
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