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Kinda sad to think future generations of Mac users won’t be able to write self modifying assembly. I feel like that’s a fun learning experience
by sesuximo 5y ago
Kinda sad to think future generations of Mac users won’t be able to write self modifying assembly. I feel like that’s a fun learning experience
- no_time 5y agoOn the other hand it prevents companies from using BS like vmprotect.
- masklinn 5y agoThat hasn't been a trivial option for a while, userland W^X (DEP) was implemented across the board >15 years ago. TFA seems to be confused about what Apple did with the M1, macOS has had W^X enabled across the board (for userland) on all supported 64b architectures since 10.5 (10.4 only had stack W^X).
- Toutouxc 5y agoCouldn't you just use a VM for stuff like that?