The Old New Thing

A library loaded via LOAD_LIBRARY_AS_DATAFILE (or similar flags) doesn't get to play in any reindeer module games

November 20, 2014 Nov 20, 2014 11/20/14

Raymond Chen

If you load a library with the flag, then it isn't really loaded in any normal sense. In fact, it's kept completely off the books. If you load a library with the , , or flag (or any similar flag added in the future), then the library gets mapped into the process address space, but it is not a true module. Functions like , , and will not ...