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lucian1900 on July 19, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Windows Executable Walkthrough Graphic

Don't know about Mach-O, but ELF is actually a rather nice and clean design.

Much of the hate PE gets is because of the silly overloading with .NET assemblies.

MarkSweep on July 20, 2012 [–]

Oh yeah, and now also WinRT metadeta.

It annoys me mildly that .NET requires you to have a little native stub in assemblies, but the Windows loader does not actually execute it.

lucian1900 on July 21, 2012 | [–]

It annoys me more than just mildly to see .exe and .dll on linux. And that silly native stub!

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