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They either predate hot-patching or never needed it. The post Why is there no Windows hot-patching support for other architectures like 32-bit ARM and MIPS? appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Once again, the benefit of fixed-length instructions. The post Windows on Itanium also provided for hot-patching, in an even simpler way appeared first on The Old New Thing .

Fixed-length instructions makes it a much easier task. The post Windows on AArch64 also provides for hot-patching, but it’s much simpler than on x86 appeared first on The Old New Thing .

If you’ve ever needed to hit a breakpoint programmatically in C++, you’ve probably written something like this: #if defined(_MSC_VER) debugbreak(); #elif defined(__clang) builtin_debugtrap(); #elif defined(__GNUC) && (defined(i386) || defined(x86_64)) asm vol…

Swearing is also poor form. The post As a general rule, calling product support while drunk is not recommended appeared first on The Old New Thing .