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Subject: Re: [9fans] useful language extension, or no?
From: David Gordon Hogan <dhog@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 20:52:21 -0400
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>>or does gcc also not do that, really.
> Look bellow:

Interesting.  My guess is that it's creating a
trampoline on the stack, which calls the real
g(), which nm tells me is at:

080485a6 t g.0

Unfortunately gdb on the Linux server is unable to show
me the instructions:

Reading symbols from a.out...Dwarf Error: Cannot handle DW_FORM_strp in DWARF reader.

But a quick grep for "tramp" in the gcc source finds such
beauties as:

libgcc2.c:1639: /* Make stack executable so we can call trampolines on stack.

and (in function.c):

/* Return the address of the trampoline for entering nested fn FUNCTION.
   If necessary, allocate a trampoline (in the stack frame)
   and emit rtl to initialize its contents (at entry to this function).  */


...and that's about all that I have the stomach for
right now...