DYNAMICALLY CONVERTING STATICALLY BOUND FUNCTION CALLS TO DYNAMICALLY BOUND FUNCTION CALLS WITHOUT RECOMPILATION

摘要

The present invention relates generally to data processing systems and, more particularly, to dynamically switching statically bound function calls to dynamically bound function calls without recompilation. There is provided a method for compiling a computer program into object code, the computer program having functions containing code and function calls to the functions, the method comprising steps of determining when a function call is umambiguous; and compiling the function call to generate object code that performs static binding and inserting a placeholder into the object code for an instruction to be inserted into the placeholder to switch to dynamic binding when it is determined that the function call is unambiguous. IMAGE