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Hi Sturla...

> You'll need to mmap or valloc a page-alligned memory
> buffer (for which the size must be a multiple of the system
> page size), and call mprotect to make it executable.
> Copy your binary code into this buffer. Then you will
> need to do some magic with ctypes, Cython or C to call
> it; i.e. cast or memcpy the address of the excutable buffer
> into a function pointer, and dereference/call the function
> pointer.

Many thanks for the sensible reply, Miki has already given me a starter...

> If that sounds gibberish, see Steven's comment about heart transplants.

He he, I've already said my piece to Steven and will remain silent after this reply
to you...

Cheers...

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