On Saturday 11 April 2009 21:07:51 Bean wrote: > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Yoshinori K. Okuji <ok...@enbug.org> wrote: > > On Saturday 11 April 2009 18:29:00 Bean wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> When symbol name is 8 or less, pe store it as short name, which is not > >> necessary null-terminated. > > > > Oh, I didn't know that. Where is it documented? > > Hi, > > Recently, I found some wired symbol not found error in modules > generated by mingw. After examining the binary image, it seems that PE > would use short name even for symbol whose length is 8, therefore no > null character at the end. grub-pe2elf assume the name is > null-terminated, which could result in extra characters in the > symbols.
OK, so you've learned it from experience. :) As I don't want to agree on Microsoft's annoying conditions, I don't read the official spec, but Wikipedia admits that your interpretation is right. Regards, Okuji _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
