-
implemented in ntoskrnl.exe and are
exposed to user mode by
ntdll.dll. The
entry point of
ntdll.dll is LdrInitializeThunk.
Native API
calls are
handled by...
- kernel-mode
library file and it
cannot be used by any user-mode program.
NTDLL.DLL is only used by some programs, but it is a
dependency of most Win32...
- However, it is not a
native application thus it is not
linked against ntdll.dll. Instead, ntoskrnl.exe has its own
entry point "KiSystemStartup" that...
-
function compiled-in
instead More specifically,
ntdll!RtlDispatchException
system routine called from
ntdll!KiUserExceptionDispatcher
which is in turn called...
-
referenced functions such as
RtlExAllocateHeap in
ntdll.dll,
which did not
exist in the
final ntdll.dll, so if
Windows even
allowed you to run it (with...
- by the application-mode code in the
operating system libraries, such as
NTDLL, that
executes outside of
kernel mode, such as the code for the program...
- they invoke. On
Windows NT, that API is part of the
Native API, in the
ntdll.dll library; this is an undo****ented API used by
implementations of the...
- 7 and above, the
loader is the
LdrInitializeThunk function contained in
ntdll.dll,
which does the following:
initialisation of
structures in the DLL itself...
- An
instruction from
ntdll.dll to call the DbgPrint()
routine contains the i386
machine opcode for jmp esp....
- AMD64. The 64-bit
Windows Native Mode
driver environment runs atop 64-bit
NTDLL.DLL,
which cannot call 32-bit Win32
subsystem code (often
devices whose...
