Ruby and Python

Hrvoje Niksic hniksic at arsdigita.com
Mon Nov 20 21:25:51 EST 2000


"Rainer Deyke" <root at rainerdeyke.com> writes:

> It is possible to write self-modifying code in assembler.

You might have a hard time doing that on today's Unix systems.  By
default, your code will be placed to the text segment, and attempts to
modify it will fail with a SIGSEGV.



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