PrintAssembly output - Please help

[Tom Rodriguez]

static stubs are used as trampolines when calling from compiled code into the interpreter.  That's just the initial state.  You can simply ignore them.

tom

On Dec 9, 2009, at 1:55 PM, Ulf Zibis wrote:

> From PrintAssembly I see some code like this:
> 
> ....
> 0x00b9bb0c: mov    $0x0,%ebx          ;...bb000000 00
>                                       ;   {static_stub}
> 0x00b9bb11: jmp    0x00b9bb11         ;...e9fbffff ff
>                                       ;   {runtime_call}
> 0x00b9bb16: mov    $0x0,%ebx          ;...bb000000 00
>                                       ;   {static_stub}
> 0x00b9bb1b: jmp    0x00b9bb1b         ;...e9fbffff ff
>                                       ;   {runtime_call}
> 0x00b9bb20: mov    $0x0,%ebx          ;...bb000000 00
>                                       ;   {static_stub}
> 0x00b9bb25: jmp    0x00b9bb25         ;...e9fbffff ff
>                                       ;   {runtime_call}
> [Exception Handler]
> 0x00b9bb2a: jmp    0x00b90f00         ;...e9d153ff ff
>                                       ;   {runtime_call}
> 0x00b9bb2f: push   $0xb9bb2f          ;...682fbbb9 00
>                                       ;   {section_word}
> 0x00b9bb34: jmp    0x00b6bb40         ;...e90700fd ff
> 
> 
> What does that mean:
> 0x00b9bb11: jmp    0x00b9bb11
> 
> Jump to itself ?
> Please explain me!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Ulf
> 
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