Re: Need help doing a jmp rather than a call

[Blake McBride <blake@arahant.com>]

On 2013-11-09 08:42:46 -0600, Rob said:

> On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 at 08:13:13AM -0600, Blake McBride wrote:
> 
> So forget that, the other approach is to manually forward the registers.
> This is roughly what optimised disassembly of the above forward function
> would look like, if you got gcc to tail-call and not do any frame setup.
> 
> .globl forward
> forward:
> 	// any free register that's not preserved across calls
> 	movq %rdi, %r10
> 
> 	// forward call registers
> 	movq %rsi, %rdi
> 	movq %rdx, %rsi
> 	movq %rcx, %rdx
> 	movq %r8, %rdx
> 	movq %r9, %r8
> 
> 	// return address is at (%rsp), so we can just jump
> 	jmp *%r10
> 
> 
> HTH,
> Rob


I corrected your small %rdx typo above and tried the following.  It 
doesn't work either though.  Knowing what I know now though, you must 
be close.

.globl __jumpToMethod
__jumpToMethod:
LFB2:
	pushq	%rbp
LCFI0:
	movq	%rsp, %rbp
LCFI1:
	movl	$0, %eax
//	call	*%rdi
//	leave
//	ret
	// any free register that's not preserved across calls
	movq %rdi, %r10

	// forward call registers
	movq %rsi, %rdi
	movq %rdx, %rsi
	movq %rcx, %rdx
	movq %r8, %rcx
	movq %r9, %r8

	// return address is at (%rsp), so we can just jump
	jmp *%r10