itanium

Windows on Itanium also provided for hot-patching, in an even simpler waymicrosoft.com

Windows hot-patching on Itanium involved overwriting the first instruction bundle with a `nop` and a `brl.cond.sptk target64` instruction. This was simpler than x86 due to Itanium's fixed-size instruction bundles and a direct 64-bit long branch instruction.