On 9 April 2015 at 13:20, Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d <[email protected]> wrote: > "Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d" wrote in message > news:[email protected]... > >> If under the same object file, you can happily emit: >> >> sub offset, %thisreg >> jmp method >> >> But if doing separate compilation, many targets to not support doing >> such operations across section boundaries. So a more general/agnostic >> way to go about it is by copying all arguments, adjusting the 'this' >> pointer and calling target method at the codegen level. This works so >> long as you are not dealing with a variadic method (ie: >> std.stream.Stream.printf) > > > They don't support jumping across section boundaries? But they do support > calling? > > Anyway it sounds like > > sub offset, %thisreg > call method > ret > > would do it
That's not copying arguments. :-) Iain.
