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> Tricks like these are going to become less common with execute-only mapping of .text slowly proliferating through the industry (iOS, OpenBSD).

Give the PaX project some credit, since they had it before OpenBSD did. Windows has had it for a while also, since XP.

> Give the PaX project some credit, since they had it before OpenBSD did.

I didn’t know that and cannot find anything that confirms this. You have a source?

Is this some obscure feature of Windows? In my experience, while code sections are almost never writable, they're always readable.

I was wrong, I was thinking of DEP which is quite different.