MingW-related setup.exe crash w/ DEP enabled

[Kai Tietz]

2010/3/17 Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>:
> On Mar 17 11:56, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
>> HI Corinna,
>>
>> > ==============
>> >                       Ultimate Packer for eXecutables
>> >  Copyright (C) 1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007
>> > UPX 3.01        Markus Oberhumer, Laszlo Molnar & John Reiser   Jul 31st 2007
>> >
>> >        File size         Ratio      Format      Name
>> >   --------------------   ------   -----------   -----------
>> > upx: rhsetup.exe: CantPackException: TLS callbacks are not supported
>> >
>> > Packed 1 file: 0 ok, 1 error.
>> > ==============
>>
>> As of the latest mingw-runtime (3.18), TLS callbacks are now the
>> default (and currently there is no way to disable them).  Does a more
>> current (i.e. 3.0.4) version of UPX support TLS?  Failing that, you'll
>> have to revert to mingw-runtime 3.17.
>>
>> Let me know how you make out.
>
> UPX is only the second problem.  The really serious problem is that
> the executable crashes under DEP.
>
>
> Corinna
>
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> Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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>

Neither in .CRT, nor in .TLS is executable for sure. They are
containing function pointers (and for .TLS additional TLS data).

So by this for sure no DEP is reasoned.

Regards,
Kai



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