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they were prominent in game hacking 2005ish windows made hooking into game code much easier than before

• sidewndr46 8mo ago
  Aren't all DLLs on the Windows platform compiled with an unusual instruction at the start of each function? This makes it possible to somehow hot patch the DLL after it is already in memory
  • leeter 8mo ago
    I believe you're thinking of the x86 Hotpatching hook[1], which doesn't exist on x86-64[2] (in the same form, it uses a x86-64 safe one). [1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20110921-00/?p=9583 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20110921-00/?p=95... [2] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20221109-00/?p=107373 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20221109-00/?p=10...
    • sidewndr46 8mo ago
      yes, that's it. Thanks for clarifying