Re: Delphi to take advantage of multiple threads within the compiler>

Arthur,

> I have been using a tool called "stripreloc" for years - it removes all
> relocation info from executables and makes them much smaller. It has
> never caused any problems. Is the paragraph above just a piece of
> nonsense? Does it *ever* happen, that Windows must relocate an executable?
> I recall that Windows opens 32-bit linear executables as memory-mapped
> files and directly maps them into code space!

Only dlls need to be rebased; Since the .exe is the first module that gets
loaded, there's nothing from keeping it getting loaded in it's "preferred"
default location. dlls frequently need to be rebased (unless they have been
optimized for a particular executable) since the exact layout of all other
dlls might not be available when building the dll, so it's next to
impossible to build a dll that has a default base address that will /never/
conflict with any of the other dlls that get loaded in a process.

Chances are you only used StripReloc on .exe files, which in practice is
just fine (although, iirc, it's not officially guaranteed that it is); if
you ever StripReloc a dll, you will probably have problems ;)


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