[ckbkr10]

they were prominent in game hacking 2005ish windows

made hooking into game code much easier than before

[sidewndr46]

Aren't all DLLs on the Windows platform compiled with an unusual instruction at the start of each function? This makes it possible to somehow hot patch the DLL after it is already in memory

[leeter]

I believe you're thinking of the x86 Hotpatching hook[1], which doesn't exist on x86-64[2] (in the same form, it uses a x86-64 safe one).

[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20110921-00/?p=95...

[2] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20221109-00/?p=10...