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Re: cygheap base mismatch detected ( Attn: rebase maintainer )


On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 11:18:40AM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> Jason, are you following this?

Not very closely.  Sorry, but cycles are very scarce right now.

However, I did note the following from Mark:

On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 01:39:30AM -0800, Mark Geisert wrote:
> The code at /src/rebase-2.3.1/rebase.c:255 assumes the signature is at
> offset 0x80 in the image.  This was true in the early Windows days but
> has long since been generalized.  The technique nowadays is to obtain
> the short integer value e_lfanew at offset 0x3C in the image, and use
> that as the offset to check for the signature.

The next version of rebase will use the above technique.

Jason

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