PE DllCharacteristics field

Myria myriachan@cox.net
Mon Feb 5 02:16:00 GMT 2007


I noticed that binutils doesn't support the DllCharacteristics field of PE 
files, always putting 0 there.  How might support for it be added in a 
future binutils?

The flags that would go there are "NX-compatible", "Terminal Services-aware" 
and "ASLR-compatible".

ASLR-compatible should require that relocation data be emitted, either DLL 
or -pie.  NX-compatible could validate that the entry point is in an 
executable section. 



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