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		chrisseaton on Nov 30, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Asmrepl: REPL for x86 Assembly Language That’s a more limited case than what we’re talking about in this thread. Think about code that is modified without jumping into it, such as stubs that are modified or certain kinds of yield points.

saagarjha on Nov 30, 2021 [–]

Writing to an address would invalidate all JIT code associated with it, not just code that starts at that address. Lookup is done on the indirect branch, not on write, so if a new entry would be generated once execution runs through it.

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