Patent ID: 8768682

Claim:
At least one computer-readable non-transitory storage medium comprising: instructions configured to enable a target device with a target instruction set architecture, in response to execution of the instructions, to provide an instruction set architecture bridging layer to the target device to facilitate a library service of a library of the target device to call a virtual function of the library, while servicing an application operating on the target device; wherein the library service is implemented for the target instruction set architecture, and the application is implemented at least partially for a source instruction set architecture and includes a class with an overriding implementation of the virtual function; and wherein the instruction set architecture bridging layer includes a loader configured to load the application for execution, and the loader, as part of loading the application, detect the overriding implementation of the virtual function, and modify a virtual function table of the class to enable, in response to the call, execution control be transferred back across the source and target instruction set architectures to the overriding implementation of the virtual function.