org.vmmagic.pragma
Annotation Type NativeBridge

@Retention(value=RUNTIME)
@Target(value=TYPE)
public @interface NativeBridge

Methods of a class that implements this interface are treated specially by the compilers: -They are only called from C or C++ program -The compiler will generate the necessary prolog to insert a glue stack frame to map from the native stack/register convention to RVM's convention -It is an error to call these methods from Java