[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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