RE: setup modifying code?

["Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>]

----Original Message----
>From: Linda W
>Sent: 08 March 2005 04:57

> Dave Korn wrote:
> 
>> Since it is a known fact that it _does_ legitimately contain
>> 
>> self-modifying code, the fact that your system doesn't warn must mean it
>> is not configured to warn about self-modifying code.
>> 
>> 
> ----
>    This is probably a non-issue, but I don't know if it's been
> tested.  Does anyone know if setup's self-modifying code feature
> could cause problems on XP-SP2 running on a processor that supports the
> No-execute bit on data segments?
> 
> Linda


  Shouldn't do.  It only modifies the code segment AFAIUI.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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