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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Using native libraries
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On Monday 21 May 2007 16:13, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> The easiest way to do that is by having an "RPC stub library" in the
> emulated environment which contains nothing but trap instructions --
> like system calls -- that can be intercepted on the other side.  At that
> point, one has to do translation of data types and pointers (called
> "thunking") before invoking the native library.  Generating such
> "thunks" is usually done automatically, but it is still a fairly major
> effort.

But can it be done at the JIT stage?