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Lost? Past? The Windows world still runs on this stuff, and there are still plenty of people who know how it works and make money from knowing. That said, MS h
by omnicognate 5y ago
Lost? Past? The Windows world still runs on this stuff, and there are still plenty of people who know how it works and make money from knowing.
That said, MS have unintentionally (I think) done a pretty good job of scrubbing the internet clean of useful information about it by breaking all their links multiple times. I keep a personal copy of some things, such as Matt Pietrek's classic two-parter "An In-Depth Look into the Win32 Portable Executable File Format", lest they disappear completely while the technologies they describe continue to run the world.
Edit: MS only appear to have part 2 of that article in their archive, and it contains broken links (of course). Both parts can still be read at [1] and [2] and remain as relevant as they were the day they were written
[1] https://bytepointer.com/resources/pietrek_in_depth_look_into_pe_format_pt1.htm https://bytepointer.com/resources/pietrek_in_depth_look_into...
[2] https://bytepointer.com/resources/pietrek_in_depth_look_into_pe_format_pt2.htm https://bytepointer.com/resources/pietrek_in_depth_look_into...