I agree with whatever Quietust just posted above.

Quietust:

For some reason, I am reminded of one of the first IOCCC winners (from 1984) - mullender (hint)

I really don't know what made you think about that... ;-)

I've always been fascinated by ASM code inside data arrays casted to function pointers... my first program of that kind was done in C some years ago.

This time I decided to add a little twist, and patched the code at runtime.

I actually don't know if this code runs on systems with Windows' DEP enabled...

Massimo:

Quietust:

For some reason, I am reminded of one of the first IOCCC winners (from 1984) - mullender (hint)

I really don't know what made you think about that... ;-)

I've always been fascinated by ASM code inside data arrays casted to function pointers... my first program of that kind was done in C some years ago.

This time I decided to add a little twist, and patched the code at runtime.

I actually don't know if this code runs on systems with Windows' DEP enabled...

I love stuff like this. Shellcode written right into the source code. I think you're right though, this should fail in Vista with default settings. At least from what I've read about DEP.