> On Sep 17, 2015, at 3:27 PM, Paul Koning <paulkon...@comcast.net> wrote:
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>
>> On Sep 17, 2015, at 2:56 PM, dwight <dkel...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> What is the definition of self modifying?
>> Is it changing an instruction to execute in the thread to be run?
>> How about adding or subtracting something to be done in an execution
>> queue?
>
> I'm not sure if there is a universally agreed to definition.
>
> It also matters why the question is asked. I can think of a couple of
> answers:
I meant to explain that point on "why". Self modifying by definition #1
matters if you're looking at I-cache management, but address space ID numbers
may take care of things. For #2, you're probably going to be doing explicit
I-cache invalidation.
For #3 and #4 (which are subsets of #2) the same would be true if they were in
current use, but they generally aren't.
paul
