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Patcherex2
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purseclab / Patcherex2

Patcherex2

A versatile and easy-to-use static binary patching tool.

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60GitHub stars
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What it is

A versatile and easy-to-use static binary patching tool.

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Where it is used

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by week2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2024-04-15 22:57:17 UTC to 2024-06-02 18:08:03 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

012024-04-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-04-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsApr 152024-04-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-04-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-04-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-05-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-05-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-05-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsMay 62024-05-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-05-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-05-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-05-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-05-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-06-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMay 27

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Apr 152024-04-15 00:00:00 UTC2024-04-22 00:00:00 UTC110
Apr 222024-04-22 00:00:00 UTC2024-04-29 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 292024-04-29 00:00:00 UTC2024-05-06 00:00:00 UTC000
May 62024-05-06 00:00:00 UTC2024-05-13 00:00:00 UTC000
May 132024-05-13 00:00:00 UTC2024-05-20 00:00:00 UTC000
May 202024-05-20 00:00:00 UTC2024-05-27 00:00:00 UTC000
May 272024-05-27 00:00:00 UTC2024-06-03 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

2 sources
philzook·Jun 2, 2024
We found these ideas very useful for doing micropatches, post hoc intrafunction binary patches, using off the shelf compilers. At the least, a voice of support that these kinds of calling convention control is useful. - Copy and Micropatch: Writing Binary Patches in C with Clang preserve_none https://www.philipzucker.com/permutation_compile/ - https://github.com/purseclab/Patcherex2/pull/31 A pull request to the PatcherEx2 library
In Copy-and-Patch: Fast compilation for high-level languages and bytecode (2020)

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