Self-modifying code! The real kind!

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 05:36:52AM +0000, Swoorup Joshi via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Self-modifying might be the answer to all sorts of performance
> problems due to branching. Only problem is security I guess. Don't
> they disable writes to code segment anyway?
[...]

I don't think the OP was talking about self-modifying code in that
sense.  I think he was talking about a program that modifies its own
*source code*, which is a different thing than a program that modifies
its own machine code while that machine code is running.


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