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From: Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Self-modifying code
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2015 21:38:33 -0700
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ferrariv65@gmail.com writes:
> Is it possible to write self-modifying code in Ada?
> More in detail: is it possible compile some code at runtime and inject
> it into the running program, on the fly?

You could generate a dynamically linkable module, but this all seems
pretty un-Ada.  What are you trying to do?  Hot upgrade?  JIT compiler
inside your application?  Maybe other approaches are worth looking into.