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Dumpbin

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Dumpbin is a great little utility provided in Windows XP that allows to dump binary files and view their content. It is particularly usefule to see the symbolic table.

Usage

> dumpbin /HEADERS MohidWater

Look for the line with stacksize

HowTo

From a dos box

>dumpbin /SYMBOLS file > file_dump.log

Where file is the filename. This will list the local functions as well as the externals.

> dumpbin /EXPORTS library > lib_dump.log

where library is a library filename. This will list the library's exported symbols.

> dumpbin /HEADERS  exefile | grep stack

This will list the stack reserve size commited at link time.

Install

Download and install the Visual Studio C++ Express

See also