Articles Tagged “DLL”
4 articles tagged “DLL”, newest first.
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DllMain and the Loader Lock — The Real Reason You're Told to "Do Nothing in DLL Initialization"
Why you must not call LoadLibrary or synchronize with other threads from DllMain. Drawing on primary sources, this article explains how the loader lock seria...
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The Depths of Windows Memory (Part 3) — Section Objects and Copy-on-Write: What DLLs and File Mappings Really Are
This article connects section objects, image and data mappings, the shared cache, and copy-on-write to explain how DLLs and shared memory share physical pages.
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DLL and COM Interface Backward Compatibility — A Decision Table for Which Changes Break Callers
Which changes to a DLL or COM component actually break their callers? We lay out the three layers of compatibility — binary, source, and behavioral — a decis...
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How Windows DLL Name Resolution Works - Search Order and SxS
Where does LoadLibrary actually look? Walk through the Windows DLL search order, Known DLLs, API sets, and SxS manifests, and how to prevent DLL hijacking.