On Thursday, 27 October 2022 03:22:40 PDT Frederick Virchanza Gotham via Std-
Proposals wrote:
> ( Feature 1 ) Allow the use of the 'sizeof' operator on a function to
> get the byte count of the function's machine code. This would allow us
> to copy a function in memory, edit a constant in the machine code, set
> the memory page as executable and execute it. Currently we can pull
> this off by first doing an 'objdump' on the object file to see the
> size of the function, but it would be nice if we could do all this in
> C++ code. Of course this all only makes sense on computers where
> program memory and data memory are the same thing (and sizeof(void*)
> == sizeof(void (*)(void))) -- which it is on the majority of
> computers. Something like as follows:
>
> int Func(void); // defined elsewhere

This is impossible.

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