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athrowaway3z 17 hours ago

I'd never heard of detour. That's a pretty cool hack.

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ckbkr10 15 hours ago | parent [-]

they were prominent in game hacking 2005ish windows

made hooking into game code much easier than before

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sidewndr46 13 hours ago | parent [-]

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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leeter 7 hours ago | parent [-]

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...

	▲	sidewndr46 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		yes, that's it. Thanks for clarifying