Re: RTCM question.

wolf3y3 <spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
But, is run time code modification
really obselete for the 8086???

8086 is obsolete. On modern processors _unrestricted_ code
modification is obsolete. As noted _restricted_ forms
of runtime code modification are widely used (for example
by JIT-compilers, debuggers, dynamic loaders).

It is usually taken as bad coding practice,
but I have found it may increase productivity,
in a program that is already complex,
and where all the registers have become a
scarce resource,

Note that in 64-bit mode you have 16 registers, using it
looks better than twisting 16-bit code to fit into 8
registers.


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Waldek Hebisch
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