Trampoline
noun
1.
a sheet, usually of canvas, attached by resilient cords or springs to a horizontal frame several feet above the floor, used by acrobats and gymnasts as a springboard in tumbling.
2.
Nautical. a fabric deck stretched on the braces connecting the hulls of a catamaran or trimaran, resembling a gymnastic trampoline.
noun
1.
a tough canvas sheet suspended by springs or elasticated cords from a frame, used by acrobats, gymnasts, etc
verb
2.
(intransitive) to exercise on a trampoline
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.
[Jargon File]
(2003-03-26)
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