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PE DllCharacteristics field

From: "Myria" <myriachan at cox dot net>
To: <binutils at sourceware dot org>
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 15:50:00 -0800
Subject: PE DllCharacteristics field

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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