A simple JIT

jit.c

#include <stdio.h> // printf
#include <string.h> // memcpy
#include <sys/mman.h> // mmap, munmap

int main () {
  // Hexadecimal x86_64 machine code for: int mul (int a, int b) { return a * b; }
  unsigned char code [] = {
    0x55,                   // push rbp
    0x48, 0x89, 0xe5,       // mov  rbp, rsp
    0x89, 0x7d, 0xfc,       // mov  DWORD PTR [rbp-0x4],edi
    0x89, 0x75, 0xf8,       // mov  DWORD PTR [rbp-0x8],esi
    0x8b, 0x75, 0xfc,       // mov  esi,DWORD PTR [rbp-04x]
    0x0f, 0xaf, 0x75, 0xf8, // imul esi,DWORD PTR [rbp-0x8]
    0x89, 0xf0,             // mov  eax,esi
    0x5d,                   // pop  rbp
    0xc3                    // ret
  };

  // allocate executable memory via sys call
  void* mem = mmap(NULL, sizeof(code), PROT_WRITE | PROT_EXEC,
                   MAP_ANON | MAP_PRIVATE, -1, 0);

  // copy runtime code into allocated memory
  memcpy(mem, code, sizeof(code));

  // typecast allocated memory to a function pointer
  int (*func) () = mem;

  // call function pointer
  printf("%d * %d = %d\n", 5, 11, func(5, 11));

  // Free up allocated memory
  munmap(mem, sizeof(code));
}