trampoline
An incredibly hairy technique, found in some HLL and program-overlay implementations (e.g. on the Macintosh), that involves on-the-fly generation of small executable (and, likely as not, self-modifying) code objects to do indirection between code sections. These pieces of live data are called "trampolines". Trampolines are notoriously difficult to understand in action; in fact, it is said by those who use this term that the trampoline that doesn't bend your brain is not the true trampoline. See also snap. [Jargon File]Last updated: 2003-03-26
Nearby terms:
tractor feed ♦ TrafoLa ♦ Trafola-H ♦ trampoline ♦ TRANDIR ♦ TRANQUIL ♦ TRANS
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