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Article #28890Re: question of the day
From: Smee
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1987 14:32
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1987 14:32
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Yuk. Self-modifying code. While I could just about believe in the need for it in the old days, on my PDP-8, when if you were really lucky you might have 8K of core to squeeze things into rather than the standard 4K, now in the days of cheap memory I've come to believe that people who write things like that deserve whatever they get. Our mainframe also does instruction fetch in two-word clusters. However, being a big machine it's got hardware whose sole purpose is to detect that you have just done this and so to force a re-fetch. To the best of my knowledge, the only piece of code which makes use of this 'feature' is the diagnostic routine which is used to make sure this kludge hardware is working. Guaranteed none of the standard system and application stuff uses it.
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