Re: Compulsory mapping location

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
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Date:
Thu, 17 May 2007 08:20:08 -0400
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"Jack" <jl@knight.com> wrote in message
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"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
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"Jack" <jl@knight.com> wrote in message
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Is it possible to force MapViewOfFile to map a module on disk to a
same location as the loader when the module is loaded as a process?
For example:
123.exe -> ImageBase = 0x400000
When doing map, the mapped pointer is also 0x400000


Of course not - the executable's code is already mapped there. You
can't have two different sets of bytes occupying the same set of
addresses. What are you really trying to achieve?


I am working on a disassembler. I want to synchronize with and check
against IDA Pro if my disassembler is correct..


Why does that require mapping two sets of data to the same address?
Anything wrong with mapping to a different address, and doing memcmp or
something?
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