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My assembly-fu is weak, but wouldn't that invalidate all jump addresses and data pointers inside the program?
by Udo 16y ago
My assembly-fu is weak, but wouldn't that invalidate all jump addresses and data pointers inside the program?
- gwern 16y agoYes, but that's not hard to fix either. For example, Google's binary deltas for Chrome updates would be huge if they couldn't easily fix those addresses; see http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/software-updates-courgette http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/software...