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What happens when you mark a section as DISCARDABLE?

July 12, 2012 Jul 12, 2012 07/12/12

Raymond Chen

In the flags you pass to the linker, you can specify that a section be made discardable. What does that mean? If you are a kernel-mode driver, the discardable flag means that the contents will be removed from memory after initialization is complete. This is where you put your initialization code and data. But if you're writing user-mode ...