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W^X would be supported by the API that they suggest:

"possibly copying a load of data into it for you incase you asked for a readonly range."



For JIT, you specifically need to be able to write some code to a page, then switch that page from writable to executable in place. Having the page move to a new location isn't acceptable, as the generated code will contain relative calls to other JIT generated code in other pages you've previously written to.


Oh right, good point!




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