[gambit-list] x86 back end

Marc Feeley feeley at iro.umontreal.ca
Wed Jan 26 21:42:31 EST 2011


On 2011-01-26, at 6:38 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:

> Does that x86 back end generate code directly into memory, augmenting 
> the running system?  Or does it generate code into a file that has to be 
> executed from the OS?

The back-end includes an assembler which can output the machine code to a byte vector or a file.  In the tests I have done the code was generated into memory and executed without accessing the filesystem.

Marc




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