Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Dec 1999 10:19:23 -0500 | From | Michael Meissner <> | Subject | Re: Unexecutable stack |
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On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 10:49:43PM +0100, Martin Dalecki wrote: > And it would prevent anything from working which is emplying the stack > as a trampoline to pass around ... guess what ... for example thrown > exceptions.
Just to be clear, it is not nested functions per se that needs trampolines, but taking the address of a nested function. The address then points to the thunk on the stack that sets up the hidden parameter that passes the enclosing frame information, and jumps to the real function.
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