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RE: rebase and ME


> Because anything based on imagehlp.dll will be subject to ms's
> vaguaries, and rebinding and rebasing .dll's does bring a performance
> improvement. If we can't rebind/rebase on windows ME via imagehlp.dll we
> will need a libbfd solution eventually - even if Steve's patch does
> allow binaries to run, they won't be as fast as they could be.

Please try the appended patched rebase.

This rebase performs the relocation directly without using bfd or the imagehlp
library, because creating a bfd based rebase would be much more complex for
understanding, supporting and testing.

See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dndebug/html/ms
dn_peeringpe.asp for more informations about the pe format and how relocations
works.

Ralf

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