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Map page two times at separate addresses: for executing and for writing. See http://nullprogram.com/blog/2016/04/10/ for details.

Extremely clever. Wouldn't this still violate W^X though? I would have thought the OS would see through a trick like this.

It doesn't violate W^X, because the same virtual memory address isn't writable and executable at the same time.