From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What are trampolines?
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2022 15:28:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83o7si7zeh.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87cz8yyogp.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Alessandro Bertulli on Mon, 05 Dec 2022 14:15:47 +0100)
> From: Alessandro Bertulli <alessandro.bertulli96@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2022 14:15:47 +0100
>
> It's not clear to me what does it mean (particularly the documentation
> string). What are trampolines?
Emacs built with native-compilation enabled uses them to support advising of
Emacs Lisp primitives.
> Does this mean is it something specific to Elisp?
Yes.
> But why do they need to be enabled at configuration time?
They don't. The Make target you spotted allows building all the trampolines
ahead of time, which is needed for distributing MS-Windows binaries of
Emacs. See bug#58318 for more details.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-05 13:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-05 13:15 What are trampolines? Alessandro Bertulli
2022-12-05 13:28 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-04-24 12:24 ` Alessandro Bertulli
2022-12-05 21:38 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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