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unusual facts about Self-modifying code


Code as data

Self-modifying code, the capability of a language to alter its own instructions while it is executing.


OpenPAT

However the basic OpenPAT process has the drawback of being unsuitable for instrumenting some special programs such as viruses, which can include self-modifying code, and the process requires external libraries to be explicitly instrumented if they are to be analyzed at a fine grained level (note however that OpenPAT does track external interactions at a course grained level without explicit library instrumentation).


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