Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!d87-khd From: d87-khd@sm.luth.se (Karl-Gunnar Hultland) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Self-modifying code Message-ID: <1026@tau.sm.luth.se> Date: 12 Jul 90 11:30:09 GMT References: Reply-To: Karl-Gunnar Hultland Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden Lines: 26 UUCP-Path: {uunet,mcvax}!sunic.se!tau.luth.se!d87-khd In article john.russell@canremote.uucp (JOHN RUSSELL) writes: >Does the shareware program PowerPacker violate the rules governing >self-modifying code? I would expect that its unpacking routine only >modifies that data cache. However I don't know if it overwrites the >unpacking routine with any other code. < lotsa stuff deleted > > >So, is this program "processor-friendly"? > >John Well I've tried PowerPacker on the 3000 and it breaks.... At least the PACKER breaks but the crunched programs works as good as before... Don't know why though. Karl --- Karl Hultland,(d87-khd@sm.luth.se) University of Lulea,Sweden Egoist: a person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me. - A. Bierce