On 9/22/2012 6:37 AM, Michel Fortin wrote:
But there should be a reason why there's a jump there. Have you found it? If you're just bypassing the jump you might be breaking something else. For instance, this jump table might have been a mean to allow the debugger to more easily break on exceptions. Or it might be something else, I don't know, but it's likely there's a reason.
Such trampolines are most often used so that a function can be easily "hot swapped" with another function. This may be a debugging feature of VS.
It took me so long to figure this one out because I had no idea that the MS linker would do this.
You should keep a record of those anomalies somewhere, it might prove useful as a starting point to investigating problems future problems that might arise.
I'll probably write a blog post about it eventually.
