trampoline
An incredibly hairy technique, found in some HLL and program-overlay
implementations (e.g. on the Macintosh), that involves on-the-fly generation of
small executable (and, likely as not, self-modifying) code objects to do
indirection between code sections. These pieces of live data are called
"trampolines". Trampolines are notoriously difficult to understand in action; in
fact, it is said by those who use this term that the trampoline that doesn't
bend your brain is not the true trampoline. See also snap.
[Jargon File]
(2003-03-26)
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