Why?

[Walter Bright]

On 4/9/2024 12:11 PM, Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole wrote:
> On 10/04/2024 7:04 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 4/9/2024 10:22 AM, Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole wrote:
>>> Address randomization, Windows remapping of symbols at runtime (with state 
>>> that is kept around so you can do it later), all suggest it isn't like that now.
>>
>> Code generation has changed to be PIC (Position Independent Code) so this is 
>> workable.
> 
>  From Windows Internals 5 and WinAPI docs, it seems as though it does memory map 
> initially. But the patching will activate CoW, so in effect it isn't memory 
> mapped if you need to patch.

Right, so the executable is designed to not need patching.

> If you don't need to patch? Who cares how much ROM is used! Don't be afraid to 
> use 256kb in a single table. Just don't use pointers... no matter what and it'll 
> be shared.

Instead of using pointers, use offsets from the beginning of the file.