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[Bug binutils/17184] New: windres: Subtle incompatibility with Windows 8


From: mity at morous dot org
Subject: [Bug binutils/17184] New: windres: Subtle incompatibility with Windows 8/8.1
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 08:54:37 +0000

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17184

            Bug ID: 17184
           Summary: windres: Subtle incompatibility with Windows 8/8.1
           Product: binutils
           Version: 2.24
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: binutils
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: mity at morous dot org

When building mCtrl project ([1], [2]) with mingw-w64 toolchain (which involves
binutils), I encounter the issue [3].

To reproduce, many conditions have to be met:
 * OS is Windows 8 or 8.1 (I have access to 64-bit only though).
 * Program embeds Internet Explorer (in the process).
 * The resources are accessed through IE's res: protocol (see [4])
 * The resource script in .exe must include application manifest.
 * The bug happens only on 1st run (i.e. to reproduce again, you have to
"touch" the .exe, reboot or whatever).

I do not know how, on the level, the embedded MSIE reads the resources, but
given the conditions above, some of them are read corrupted.

I admin the bug seems very suspicious as it requires a lot of code to embed the
browser, and set of the conditions to reproduce is quite complex. However I did
my very best to isolate the problem to windres utility (comments in [3]
summarizes the effort).

Note the complexity is in mCtrl.dll, while it is very simple ex_html.exe and
its resource script which, when compiled with windres, triggers the bug.

Especially please note that one of my experiments was to build the mCtrl.dll +
ex_html.exe with MSVC, with one exception: ex_html.exe was created by
(MSVC)linking MSVC-produced ex_html.c.o with windres-produced ex_html.rc.o and
this still triggers the bug.

Links:
 [1] http://mctrl.sf.net
 [2] https://github.com/mity/mctrl
 [3] https://github.com/mity/mctrl/issues/13
 [4] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa767740%28v=vs.85%29.aspx)

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