Wine and relocation on not aligned section

Alexandre Julliard julliard at winehq.org
Wed Nov 12 14:43:16 CST 2008


Alessandro <alex.pigna at inventati.org> writes:

> On Wednesday 12 November 2008 20:59:00 you wrote:
>> > while diving into wine sources i've noticed that wine does not apply
>> > relocation to section not aligned to page boundary.
>> > Is there any reason for this behaviour?
>> > If it is wrong i've put up a little patch that solves the issue.
>>
>> Do you know of an application that needs this?
>> Or can you write a conformance test that shows
>> how Windows behaves in this situation?
>>
>> http://www.uninformed.org/?v=6&a=3&t=txt seems to
>> imply it's not needed?
>> - Dan
> It is needed to load kernel level drivers (.sys files). I don't know how to 
> test the windows behaviour with such cases. I think relocation is done to link 
> the driver with the kernel interefaces.

Relocation for drivers is handled in winedevice.exe.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org



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