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2015 Oct 19
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Support/COFF.h NumberOfSections size-mismatch inside "header"-struct
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while working on a simple PE-Parser, using the llvm/Support/COFF.h Header, to validate if a given File is a PE-File and to read the Machine Field I was experiencing some troubles.
It seemed the Fields were somehow misaligned and I could pinpoint the source of the misalignment to be the "NumberOfSections" field inside the "header"-struct (a.k.a. IMAGE_FILE_HEADER in winnt.h).
It is defined as "int32_t" in COFF.h, while in winnt.h it is defined as "WORD" and in the "Microsoft Portable Executable and Common Object File Format Specification", which is...