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Barnski
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Posted: 28th Feb 2006 11:23
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Hi,

during debug I took a view at the assembly of darksdk library files.

I noticed that large section of the code are mainly looking like this:


Isn't this just a waste of space and memory ?! Can anyone explain why there is this byte filling between real assembly code?

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Posted: 28th Feb 2006 12:05
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File padding. It's not binary data geberated from the actual DGSDK code.


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Posted: 28th Feb 2006 12:10
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You mean its not in the exe?

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Posted: 28th Feb 2006 12:18
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It is, but is probably needed to make a proper Win32 executable (align to next section), so something like that.

It could also be reserved memory for global or static variables.

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It is padding, probably from the linking stage.

Go to the properties page, select Linker->Optimisation, and set 'Optimize for Windows98' to no. See if that cuts things down a little.

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Just to add a random bit of trivia, the instruction 'int 3' will cause a user breakpoint if you're running under a debugger. It can be useful to fill unused memory with that value as it will immediately stop in the debugger if you ever try to execute code there.

But yes, it's just padding to align blocks of code/data on certain byte multiple boundries I assume.

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Barnski
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Posted: 28th Feb 2006 15:43 Edited at: 28th Feb 2006 15:48
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That Win98 optimization did not change much in this case, but changing from debug to release did change alot

still some of these lines remain.. but MUCH fewer.

i got another problem now though; in release mode it crashes on dbSetDisplayMode!! (even after checking with dbCheckDisplayMode)
if I uncomment the line it runs fine!

and in debug build it runs fine from beginning!

i will go look into this... maybe someone can help?
edit: dang, I posted this too fast, it was due to the same buffer overrun i mentioned in the dbFileExist thread I was having.... (I used the buffer overrun to get into the assembly code of db files)
now everything works! sorry for bothering, and Thanks for yer answers!


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Posted: 28th Feb 2006 19:41
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Barnsk, that crash in dbSetDisplayMode sounds like an old bug from a previous version of the SDK, have you updated to 1.1.1? Just that this, if I remember correctly, was an historical assertion in the code for that function (Need Mike to verify that) but I remember it occurring in the original release of the SDK.

Anyway, go to your purchase products list page and download the latest version. This should fix that problem...... I hope

Paul.


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Posted: 28th Feb 2006 23:50
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I already have 1.1.1, but thanx anyways. The problem was something different. A buffer overrun that corrupts somehow some DB functions... really weird!

but now everything seems to work fine.. well.. not 100% actually.
but this is worth another thread, if I decide to post it... tomorrow perhaps..

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