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Windows dynamic linking depends on the active code page
Windows paths have been WTF-16 -encoded for decades, but module names in the import tables of Portable Executable are octets. If a name contains values beyond ASCII — technically out of spec — then the dynamic linker must somehow decode those octets into Unicode in order to construct a lookup path. There are multiple…
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Software EngineeringSystems & Performance2024
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 7, 2024 | Windows dynamic linking depends on the active code page by signa11 | 149 | 52 |
