I very much appreciate your response Alan.
This is very helpful and explains why Cygwin dumper gets in a bind as it assumes all CODE & DEBUGGING flagged sections are in memory. Thanks again, Sam On 16/03/14 20:40, Alan Modra wrote:
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:15:38AM +1100, Sam Liapis at constrainttec dot com wrote:$ objdump -h airdac_.exe airpac_.exe: file format pei-i386 Sections: Idx Name Size VMA LMA File off Algn 0 .text 008d8980 00401000 00401000 00000400 2**4 CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE, DATA ... 7 .debug_info 151e2063 028ca000 028ca000 024b3000 2**0 <== VMA and SIZE match-up with trace above CONTENTS, READONLY, DEBUGGINGAs you can see from the flags above, .debug_info is not ALLOC, LOAD. This means the section is not loaded into memory and the VMA is irrelevant. Another DLL could well occupy this space, because airpac_.exe does not use that memory.
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