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- ooh souffle! wonder how they avoid saturation explosion. that's doomed my souffle projects in the past. but obviously they've found a way to partition (maybe by block?)by sterlind
- How does this actually work in practice?
I suppose altering instruction count or size still dooms the executable to become non-functional?
Or do all absolute & relative code & data references all get magically updated?
by BobbyTables2 - Generally binary rewriters will add a new section for the rewritten code/other stuff that needs regeneration (relocations, exception info, the like)by not_a9
- elf and pe have relocation info so u can patch things effectively. binary blobs might be problematic but project targets elf/pe from what i can tell.
there is no magic in computer -_-
- HN does not seem to have discussed ddisasm enough.
When I discovered it, I was amazed, astonished, stunned, thrilled, and in disbelief.
It turns out that it actually works.
by aboardRat4 - Why is it amazing?by saagarjha