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Either by clever design, or – more likely – a lucky accident, SPARC resists this problem by the fact that jump table offsets are illegal instructions.

On x86, we have to bail if we even catch a whiff of a jump table. We can still offer entry and return probes (we look for a very specific instruction sequence for returns).

I'm working on a cool solution that will let us understand jump tables.