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