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		jnordwick on Feb 11, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An optimization guide for assembly programmers and... Can't you place a trap where the target code would go? It would still be self-modifying code, but least you get rid of the indirection in the other way.

souprock on Feb 11, 2019 [–]

Not only is that code not produced yet, but the memory isn't allocated yet. The location is thus unknown.

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