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Windows system DLLs have pointless "mov edi, edi" instructions in function prologues to enable hotpatching. It's not just mainframes ;)
by revelation 13y ago
Windows system DLLs have pointless "mov edi, edi" instructions in function prologues to enable hotpatching. It's not just mainframes ;)
- maximilianburke 13y agoYes, MSVC does this when the /hotpatch command line option is provided.
- jodrellblank 13y agoWhich I recently read about on Raymond Chen's blog. Link: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2011/09/21/10214405.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2011/09/21/10214...