trampoline
trampoline n. An incredibly {hairy} technique, found in
some {HLL} and program-overlay implementations (e.g., on the
Macintosh), that involves on-the-fly generation of small executable
(and, likely as not, self-modifying) code objects to do indirection
between code sections. These pieces of {live data} are called
`trampolines'. Trampolines are notoriously difficult to
understand in action; in fact, it is said by those who use this
term that the trampoline that doesn't bend your brain is not the
true trampoline. See also {snap}.
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