Questions about trampolines

[Robert Dewar]

Waldek Hebisch wrote:

> But there is no need to generate trampolines on the stack. Namely, 
> one can generate code in a separate area. In C this causes problems
> with garbage collection, which IMHO can be solved, but requre alloca-like
> tricks. On the other hand trampolines in separate area may provide
> extra functionality, beyond what nested functions give. For example
> they can be used to "partially apply" a function, giving it some
> frozen arguments, and providing the rest at call time.

Trampolines do of course have to be handled in a stack like fashion (to
get recursion right), so you have to be very careful about allocation and
deallocation in this separate area. And you still have the cache problem,
so I don't see what it buys.