alt Hacker NewsYou basically need to wrap your program's `tick()` function. Otherwise you might be in the middle of malloc, hot-patch, and your struct's layout and alignment changes, and your program crashes due to undefined behavior.
The goal is that frameworks just bake `subsecond::current` into their `tick()` function and end-users get hot-patching for free.
How would you preempt the running program during malloc? Isn't there a well-defined reload point? Major red flags going up if your program can just change at any random point..
Also, didn't the article say explicitly that struct layout changes aren't supported??