Comment by ckbkr10
11 hours ago
they were prominent in game hacking 2005ish windows
made hooking into game code much easier than before
11 hours ago
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
I believe you're thinking of the x86 Hotpatching hook[1], which doesn't exist on x86-64[2] (in the same form, it uses a x86-64 safe one).
[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20110921-00/?p=95...
[2] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20221109-00/?p=10...
yes, that's it. Thanks for clarifying