Hi Liming, Bob and Yuwei
There is a need that some code wants to supports
Self-Modification, because some program behavior may not be
determined during compilation, and I think this demand may be
very popular.
The permise of Self-Modification is that the section has executable and writable permissions. Adding a new section and giving it executable and writable permissions is a better way, and the 'pragma seg_code' is recognized in Microsoft VS compiler but GCC doesn't. If use the GCC as the compiler, the '.section name flags' of GNU GAS are acceptable.
But there is a problem, if converting from elf to efi, the user-defined section with W+X or A+W+X will be droped, Elf64Convert.c will scan the file section permission of elf, if the section is A+X, it will be classified into the .text section, if the section is A+W , then it will be classified into the .data section, if the section is A+W+X or W+X, then it will be droped(Elf64Convert.c, line 272 to 325).
That is:
If using the VS compiler, the user-defined with executable and writable sections may be perserved, but GCC elf to efi conversion may not.
Hope hearback from you and discuss the necessity
of SMC(Slef-Modifying-Code) and how to implement it.