Hi Dims, I think the paper is behind a protected ftp which requires login and password. I am unable to get to it. Regards ~sundar
-----Original Message----- From: Davanum Srinivas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 7:32 PM To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: GCJ ABI (Re: Trampoline) 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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/