[LLVMdev] What is on the LLVM horizon for truly relocatable JITted code?

[Bruce Hoult]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 8:47 AM, Christian Schafmeister <
chris.schaf at verizon.net> wrote:

> I’d like to move the code into the MPS managed memory and be able to apply
> copying garbage collection to it.  Is this possible?   Will it ever be
> possible?
>

Will you be able to find and patch return addresses on the stack?

Or, as the stack is only conservatively scanned, the presence of a possible
pointer into the code prevents it being moved?
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