glibc used to have trampoline code, which would prevent redhat 5.2 from
booting with solar designer's non-exec stack patch unless you had also
compiled it with trampoline emulation.
On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Ingo Oeser wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 07:48:17PM -0700, Matthew Dharm wrote:
> > Hrm... this could cause some problems for applications which use
> > self-modifying code (i.e. trampoline handlers, etc.)
>
> Could you please show a daily example of any *need* for
> trampolines? I mean code, which could only be implemented
> (efficiently) via trampolines.
>
> I never saw one generated by GCC and never wrote an explicit one
> by myself. So for what important piece of code we do need it and
> can't code it without trampolines?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Ingo Oeser
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