alt Hacker NewsYikes, I don't see any legitimate use for this, other than hacking for the sake of hacking. Interesting read though.
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lokar • today at 5:21 PM
I’ve seen this in large C++ systems to allow for a runtime patch, generally to add a simple debug call at the start of a function.
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throwa356262 • today at 4:20 PM
Well, we are on Hacker News after all...
Hot reloading for development loops is _the_ canonical use case for this.