What is the format of the rdata section in Windows executable files?
I extracted the .rdata section from an executable file. See below. I am trying to understand its format. It appears that the format of the .rdata section is strings separated by one or more null characters. Following that line of thinking I can extract these strings:
- libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll
- __register_frame_info
- libgcj-13.dll
And so on.
But then I encounter something that is clearly not a text string. See highlighted portion below. What is it? How to interpret it? Is it to be interpreted as a number? If yes, how many bytes in the number?
My overall question is this: How is the .rdata section formatted?
format executable hexdump
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I extracted the .rdata section from an executable file. See below. I am trying to understand its format. It appears that the format of the .rdata section is strings separated by one or more null characters. Following that line of thinking I can extract these strings:
- libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll
- __register_frame_info
- libgcj-13.dll
And so on.
But then I encounter something that is clearly not a text string. See highlighted portion below. What is it? How to interpret it? Is it to be interpreted as a number? If yes, how many bytes in the number?
My overall question is this: How is the .rdata section formatted?
format executable hexdump
asked yesterday
Roger Costello
1,23411221
add a comment |
I extracted the .rdata section from an executable file. See below. I am trying to understand its format. It appears that the format of the .rdata section is strings separated by one or more null characters. Following that line of thinking I can extract these strings:
- libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll
- __register_frame_info
- libgcj-13.dll
And so on.
But then I encounter something that is clearly not a text string. See highlighted portion below. What is it? How to interpret it? Is it to be interpreted as a number? If yes, how many bytes in the number?
My overall question is this: How is the .rdata section formatted?
format executable hexdump
asked yesterday
Roger Costello
1,23411221
I extracted the .rdata section from an executable file. See below. I am trying to understand its format. It appears that the format of the .rdata section is strings separated by one or more null characters. Following that line of thinking I can extract these strings:
- libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll
- __register_frame_info
- libgcj-13.dll
And so on.
But then I encounter something that is clearly not a text string. See highlighted portion below. What is it? How to interpret it? Is it to be interpreted as a number? If yes, how many bytes in the number?
My overall question is this: How is the .rdata section formatted?
format executable hexdump
format executable hexdump
asked yesterday
Roger Costello
1,23411221
asked yesterday
Roger Costello
1,23411221
asked yesterday
Roger Costello
1,23411221
asked yesterday
Roger Costello
1,23411221
asked yesterday
Roger Costello
1,23411221
1,23411221
add a comment |
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