Rosasm and LAA

[BurnWithMe]

To make RosAsm LAA (LARGE_ADRESS_AWARE) is just a matter of oring a bit in the PE header code. And I did this because I need huge amounts of memory for a project now. But the fact is that the debugger in my version of RosAsm does not understand adresses bigger then 0_8000_0000 and it greys them out. This is not good for an assembler in my view. Can it be fixed easily?

Anyway, very happy to see that you carry on the good work for an excellent assembler.  Thanks you.

[guga]

Hmm...can you post the exe (with source) where you are trying to do it ? Then i can try to reproduce the error in order to fix it.

[BurnWithMe]

Do you mean the modified RosAsm exe? If not the answer is regrettfully no. But it should not be to hard to verify.

1
Enable the PE header bit below the label "WritePEeaders" the bit is called &IMAGE_FILE_LARGE_ADRESS_AWARE

2
Ask windows, repeatedly for memory in 0_1000_0000 chunks, until the return adress > 0_8000_0000

3
Verify that the returned pointer is grayed out in the Debugger and cannot be inspected, but that the memory
is valid and can be written with code.

I suspect this is a C mindset that has lead the author of the debugger to think that those adresses are invalid.
Note that windows may not be able to return a LARGE chunk at once, but that it will return upto about 3.8 G if
asked for several smaller chunks. The largest single contigous chunk will be around 1.8G. Thats why I ask
for 0_1000_0000 at a time, when I was testing this.

[guga]

Yes, the modified RosAsm.exe

I´ll take a look at WritePeHeaders and see what i can do and how implement it. The better would be simply a user choice option enabling this.

Many thanks

[BurnWithMe]

just wanted to add that this is on x64 os with significant amounts of ram. in 32bit os things may be different, for all I know.

[xuewuyang]

The better would be simply a user choice option enabling this.

[Antariy]

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[Antariy]

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[hutch--]

Thanks Alex, I missed that one.