Trampolines in the Kaffe JIT Compiler

[Godmar Back]

That's great.  I think Tim has someone redesign the kaffe.org website,
and I'm sure this could be included or at least linked to.

Only problem I have is that it describes the old, broken form of 
trampolines.  The fixed trampolines I put in last year take an additional
parameter for what I call the anchor of the trampoline ("w" or `where'.)


In general, please always date your paper and say to which versions of the
software you're describing the information applies.

	- Godmar

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> On the Kaffe website, particularly in relation to porting Kaffe to new 
> architectures, it states "that documentation would be welcome here." 
> I have documented the trampoline system of the Kaffe JIT compiler in a
> document entitled "Trampolines in the Kaffe JIT Compiler."  Please see 
> the abstract below.  I think this paper will help others who are porting
> Kaffe to rapidly learn this element of Kaffe's JIT compiler.
> 
> 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.  This paper explains how trampolines work and describes the
> requirements for implementing trampolines when porting Kaffe.  Detailed
> case studies are given of how the trampoline systems in the SPARC and i386
> architectures meet these requirements.
> 
> The paper is found on my kaffe page in HTML format. 
> http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~sanseri/kaffe/k2.html 
> 
> I would appreciate comments on this document.  Please feel free to post
> a copy of this paper or a link to it on the Kaffe website.  Hope it helps.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Samuel Sanseri
> Computer Science Graduate Research Assistant
> Portland State University
> sanseri at cs.pdx.edu
>