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- Brian Quinlan <quinlan@news.sfu.ca> wrote (in response to Cliff's Message):
- >Why do you support instruction modification? The 040 and PPC Macs won't
- >always run programs which use instruction modification due to their
- >caches.
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- They _will_ if the cache is flushed after the code is modified; in fact,
- that's how Executor detects self-modifying code. Whenever the cache is
- flushed, it checks to see if any of the compiled code was modified, and
- recompiles it if it has.
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- At least, that's my understanding of how Executor works.
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- Adam Roach -- adam.roach@exu.ericsson.se -- Standard Disclaimers, etc.
- A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is
- not worth knowing.
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