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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 26, 1999
James S. Mattson, Jr., Campbell, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method are described for providing optimization for software inter-module procedure calls. The system provides for a program linker to translate a non-executable program into a computer program. The program linker also creates an import stub when the program linker encounters a call instruction to an unresolved module in the computer program. The program linker further modifies the call instruction to the unresolved module to be a call instruction to the created import stub. The import stub determines a location of the unresolved module a first time the unresolved module is called. The import stub then modifies the call instruction to the unresolved module the first time the unresolved module is called to be a direct call the unresolved module at the location determined after the first time the unresolved module is called.