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Article #2508Re: Self-modifying code
From: Hugh LaMaster
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1989 20:12
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1989 20:12
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In article <4415@bd.sei.cmu.edu> firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) writes: >into and obeyed as code. A more sophisticated system allows the >dynamic replacement of code bodies by alternative versions; thus, if >during debugging you suspect the new version of "munge()" is bad, you Anybody else remember the TSS operating system, which let a system programmer test modified system routines on his own task on the fly without affecting other tasks? Of course, VM can do this, too, but try to find a Unix system with a *real* dynamic loader like this :-) Hugh LaMaster, m/s 233-9, UUCP ames!lamaster NASA Ames Research Center ARPA lamaster@ames.arc.nasa.gov Moffett Field, CA 94035 Phone: (415)694-6117
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