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Windows on AArch64 also provides for hot-patching, but it’s much simpler than on x86

The Old New Thing (Raymond Chen) ↗ · yesterday Cached

Raymond Chen explains how Windows on AArch64 implements function hot-patching more simply than on x86, using a 12-byte patch space and a three-instruction trampoline via the xip0 scratch register, noting that pointer authentication (pacibsp) usually guards the function entry.

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