trampoline - closures as first-class C functions.

This library implements closures as first-class C functions. A closure
consists of a regular C function and a piece of data which gets passed to
the C function when the closure is called.

Typical uses of closures are nested functions in programming languages,
and call-back functions passed to other libraries.


Installation instructions:

        ./configure
        make
        make check
        make install


Files in this package:

    Documentation:

        README           this text
        COPYING          free software license
        PLATFORMS        list of supported platforms
        trampoline.3     manual page in Unix man format
        trampoline.html  manual page in HTML format

    Source:

        trampoline.h.in  include file
        trampoline.c     implementation of the library functions
        tramp-hppa.s     the trampoline for hppa, in assembly language
        tramp-rs6000.S   the trampoline for rs6000, in assembly language
        protexec.c       how to set memory protection to executable, now unused
        cache.c          how to flush the instruction cache, now unused
        test1.c          test program
        test2.c          test program

    Installation:

        configure        configuration script
        configure.in     autoconf-2.12 source for the configuration script
        ../autoconf/*    auxiliary configuration scripts
        Makefile.in      Makefile master
        config.h.in      config.h master

    Porting:

        PORTING          porting instructions
        Makefile.devel   developer's Makefile
        proto.c          sample source containing assignment and jumping
        proto-*.s        its translation to assembly language
        tramp-*.s        the trampoline, in assembly language
        tramp-*.o        the trampoline, in binary form


Copyright notice:

Copyright 1995 Bruno Haible, <haible@clisp.cons.org>

This is free software distributed under the GNU General Public Licence
described in the file COPYING. Contact the author if you don't have this
or can't live with it. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, explicit or implied,
on this software.


Bruno Haible
<haible@clisp.cons.org>