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Comment by tpoacher

19 hours ago

Why "trampoline" though? Is there an obvious allusion to multiple jumping that I'm missing?

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Joker_vD  16 hours ago

Because instead of jumping straight to the actual code of the function, you jump to the trampoline first, and then bounce off of it to the function.

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