This is all resting on the assumption that the flag does actually have an impact, which was an argument in the original comment. As for self-modifying code, th

This is all resting on the assumption that the flag does actually have an impact, which was an argument in the original comment. As for self-modifying code, the dangers are way overstated IMO. Having written a lot of it as well as reverse-engineered and debugged code using self-modifying code heavily, I look at it as just another tool in the chest. It's pretty easy to chop your limb off using self-modifying code, but having audited a whoooole lot of static code, I'd say that argument applies to just about any tool.