Threaded code: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 21:10, 4 August 2023

Revision as of 18:05, 19 September 2023

Line 48:

</ref>

Over the years, programmers have created many variations on that "interpreter" or "small selector". The particular address in the list of addresses may be extracted using an index, [[general -purpose register]] or [[pointer (computer programming)|pointer]]. The addresses may be direct or indirect, contiguous or non-contiguous (linked by pointers), relative or absolute, resolved at compile time or dynamically built. No single variation is "best" for all situations.

==Development==

Line 358:

* [[Return-oriented programming]]: the rediscovery of threaded code in order to exploit remote vulnerable systems.

* [[Tail call]]

* [[History of general -purpose CPUs]]

==Notes==