Re: [off-topic] Fully virtualisable CPUs

Alan Cox (alan@cymru.net)
Mon, 9 Sep 1996 10:28:10 +0100 (BST)


> He could scan forward to the nearest jump, then leave a debug breakpoint.
> When the CPU hits the breakpoint, scan again. You end up with breakpoints
> before all the unknown code (jumps never taken) and at spots where some
> evil code must be emulated.

Nope - self modifying code, and there is plenty of that around