Fix some type definitions for the WORDS_BIGENDIAN case

Alexandre Julliard julliard at winehq.org
Tue Jan 3 12:40:35 CST 2006


"Dmitry Timoshkov" <dmitry at baikal.ru> writes:

> "Alexandre Julliard" <julliard at winehq.org> wrote:
>
>> Well, I'm not sure what Microsoft is trying to achieve here either...
>> It doesn't seem a very good idea to put a standard PE signature on
>> big-endian files, since they are not valid PE files. The current
>> approach makes it possible at some point to support loading
>> little-endian PE files on big-endian machines (which I suspect is what
>> Microsoft is trying to do with that define). If you swap the signature
>> in builtins then you will have no way of knowing whether you need to
>> swap the rest of the header.
>
> Isn't Machine (IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_xxx) field supposed to indicate that?

Not really; there's an IMAGE_FILE_BYTES_REVERSED flag though, maybe we
should be setting that for big-endian. But of course you can't get at
the flag without knowing the byte order of the DOS header...

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org



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