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patching
- Sep 19, 2026 Cache Miss Handling and Patching Code at the Access Site What happens on the first execution of a property access, how the runtime rewrites the site without breaking other threads, and why the patched instruction must be safe to overwrite atomically. language runtimes
- Nov 10, 2025 Relocation Arithmetic: Patching Machine Code at Link Time The formulas behind absolute, PC-relative, and GOT-relative relocations, the range limits that make them fail, and why the addend must be stored separately on some architectures. compilers