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Article Abstract Microsoft Visual C++ is the most widely used compiler for Win32 so it is important for the Win32 reverser to be familiar with its inner working. Being able to recognize the compiler-generated glue code helps to quickly concentrate on the actual code written by the programmer. It also helps in recovering the high-level structure of the program.

In part I of this 2-part article (see also: Part II: Classes, Methods and RTTI), I will concentrate on the stack layout, exception handling and related structures in MSVC-compiled programs. Some familiarity with assembler, registers, calling conventions etc. is assumed.

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aeppert	Posted: Monday, March 6 2006 12:04.30 CST
Excellent collection of information. Very much worth reading for anyone that deals with Win32.

halvar	Posted: Monday, March 6 2006 13:55.01 CST
Thanks for the article, very useful !

ryanlrussell	Posted: Tuesday, March 7 2006 03:14.46 CST
This is the best collection of SEH info I've seen so far, and your diagrams are gorgeous, too! Would I be very rude to sya that you went over things way WAY too fast? :) I look forward to part II. Let me see if I can't pull some examples to ask you about...

igorsk	Posted: Tuesday, March 7 2006 03:34.02 CST
I'm glad you liked it. And sorry for the speed, I'm not a very good writer :)

Opcode	Posted: Tuesday, March 7 2006 19:11.42 CST
Great article! Looking forward to see the next one! Thank you.

g3nuin3	Posted: Friday, March 17 2006 23:53.00 CST
Great Article. Looking forward to the next one. cheers

randori82	Posted: Saturday, March 25 2006 03:47.57 CST
great article, looking forward to part 2!

tcarter	Posted: Thursday, April 6 2006 21:23.00 CDT
Absolutely awesome article!

SYSOP008	Posted: Monday, April 10 2006 00:03.26 CDT
Wonderful! Really like this one, thanks for your contribution.

winndy	Posted: Monday, April 17 2006 22:11.46 CDT
Great article.But I have a question. In figure SEH4 Stack Layout , why EH Cookie Offset pointer to GS Cookie in stack,while GS Cookie Offset pointer to EH Cookie in stack ? A mistake? Thanks

igorsk	Posted: Tuesday, April 18 2006 07:37.07 CDT
winndy: yep, forgot to fix the arrows while dragging boxes around. Thanks for noting that!

CmJohn	Posted: Friday, May 22 2009 01:08.38 CDT
Great work�� I think there is a clerical error "Stack UInwinding: Automatic destruction of such objects that happens when the control leaves the scope due to an exception. ", is it ought to be "Unwinding"?

lazyworm	Posted: Tuesday, April 20 2010 22:38.55 CDT
that's helpful

voila	Posted: Thursday, July 1 2010 17:40.37 CDT
thanks .... gonna really helpful :) :)

kael	Posted: Wednesday, August 4 2010 02:06.13 CDT
This is good article .. sunshine the understanding of binary-auditing.com for module HLL Mapping and Manual decompilation.

msuarez	Posted: Friday, October 15 2010 08:23.51 CDT
thank you very much!

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