From: Duncan Sands <baldrick@free.fr>
To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org
Cc: Randy Brukardt <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: LLVM--Low Level Virtual Machine--and Ada
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:03:26 +0200
Date: 2007-07-24T10:05:02+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.7.1185264194.3834.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f83n1b$jl3$1@jacob-sparre.dk>
Hi Randy,
> Janus/Ada has never used any executable data/stack in its 32-bit versions;
> such code would save no more than a clock cycle or two (out of hundreds or
> thousands) and as such could not be significant. We use compiler-generated
> thunks rather than run-time generated trampolines, and I'm not sure why
> anyone would use the latter (given that they increase the exploitability of
> a program). Most be something I don't understand...
how do these thunks work?
Thanks,
Duncan.
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Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-18 3:56 LLVM--Low Level Virtual Machine--and Ada Jerry
2007-07-18 7:24 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-07-18 7:48 ` Duncan Sands
2007-07-19 14:30 ` Maxim Reznik
2007-07-19 14:56 ` Duncan Sands
[not found] ` <200707191656.27602.baldrick@free.fr>
2007-07-19 15:03 ` Duncan Sands
2007-07-19 21:30 ` Robert A Duff
2007-07-20 7:44 ` Duncan Sands
2007-07-20 14:06 ` Robert A Duff
2007-07-21 13:09 ` Tero Koskinen
2007-07-23 7:47 ` Duncan Sands
2007-07-24 2:12 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-07-24 8:03 ` Duncan Sands [this message]
2007-07-24 9:50 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2007-07-24 10:47 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-07-25 12:12 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2007-07-25 12:59 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-07-24 19:21 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-07-24 19:36 ` Duncan Sands
2007-07-24 19:58 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-07-24 23:28 ` Robert A Duff
2007-07-25 0:39 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-07-25 2:00 ` Robert A Duff
2007-07-25 13:14 ` Duncan Sands
2007-07-21 22:04 ` anon
2007-07-22 13:22 ` Steve
2007-07-23 12:29 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2007-07-23 14:42 ` anon
2007-07-23 16:55 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-07-24 10:19 ` Colin Paul Gloster
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