I don't know about the idea that self-modifying code is brain-dead.........
my dad's first & best custom bootloader/bootstrapper was self modifying and
worked great!!!
Drew Northup, N1XIM
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Jens Nerche
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 12:23 PM
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Subject: Re: Another plex86 technical thing
>The only time we care is before transferring execution to
>the guest, which is a good time to check and possibly dump
>the vcode cache and rescan.
This doesn't work with self modifying code (yes, that's a bit
braindead to write self mod code, but possible...).
>... dump the vcode cache ...
Dump changes into original page?
>That paper is the closest thing I have to a summary. Isn't
>the source code self-documenting? :^)
Source code is the exactes doc, right. But there was a bunch
of other ideas not yet in code or rejected I'd like to discuss.
Well, we'll see... :)
jens
