There is a variant of hot code reloading (dynamic binary program patching) for C. http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hollings/papers/apijournal.pdf http://www.cs.umd.edu/~

There is a variant of hot code reloading (dynamic binary program patching) for C. http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hollings/papers/apijournal.pdf http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hollings/papers/apijournal.pdf And there even older one (I cannot find because search in my blog (LJ) is broken).