Archive for December, 2008

Disabling buffer security checking

WDK turns on buffer security checking (/GS1) by default when building a native/kernel project. However if a native application needs to run on downlevel OS such as Windows 2000 and was compiled with /GS, then it will encounter a consistent and timely death when it cannot find RtlUnhandledExceptionFilter in ntdll.dll. This will happen despite the [...]