Re: Wine and relocation on not aligned section

[Dan Kegel]

> 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

Wine and relocation on not aligned section

[Alessandro]

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.

Alessandro
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Wine and relocation on not aligned section

[Alexandre Julliard]

Alessandro <alex.pigna(a)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
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