ntdll: Don't cancel loading on IMAGE_FILE_RELOCS_STRIPPED

Greg Geldorp ggeldorp at vmware.com
Tue Sep 7 12:20:12 CDT 2010


> From: Paul Chitescu <paulc at voip.null.ro>
>
> In a typical Win32 environment the executables don't have relocations since
> they load at a fixed address. Old (Visual C 4.x and older) executables had
> relocations so they could run on Win32s.

Not all that relevant to the patch, but... Newer executables do tend to have
relocations. This allows ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization) on Vista
and higher to work.

Ge.



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