Questions about trampolines

[Robert Dewar]

Joern RENNECKE wrote:

>> You need to be able to set the value of a parameter over a widely
>> varying range, what makes you think you can pick two values that
>> will cover all cases, or 4 or 6 for that matter. 

> In order to allow to specify the exact size of the pool, you can provide 
> the
> source of the library that implements it, and have the application 
> programmer
> compile it with a -D flag which determines the desired size of the pool.
> This can also be driven by a specs file so that all the programmer does is
> supply one option with a numerical parameter during 'linking'.
> 

Right, but 12 separate libraries to accomodae 12 separate values
is not a reasonable approach. Expecting people to recompile from
sources is also not a reasonable approach in a production environment
since such recompilation would require revalidation.

For me, the whole approach is ugly anyway, and I would follow a
quite different path, as I have indicated in prior messages.