On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 09:29:48AM -0500, Brian Ford wrote: > >I wish I would have known this was possible while working on DWARF 2 > >debugging. Everything I read stated: "If it has a section header, > >Windows' brain dead loader will load it regardless of section > >attributes". I hope it really works on all supported platforms. > > It's a documented field in PE's section header, so I don't see why it > wouldn't work. The only brain-dead thing that the loader does is to go > ahead and load a section into memory if it is marked as readable or > writable as well as noload.
Thanks for the reply. By it, can I assume you meant IMAGE_SCN_TYPE_NOLOAD? In the only "official" PE COFF documentation I could find: Microsoft Portable Executable and Common Object File Format Specification Revision 6.0 - February 1999 4.1 Section Flags: IMAGE_SCN_TYPE_NOLOAD 0x00000002 Reserved for future use. Don't get me wrong; I really hope it works everywhere. I was just too skeptical to use it before myself given that it appeared not to work because of the binutils bug. -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained pilot... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
