Re: Identify 32 bit binary or 64 bit binary [modified] - C / C++ / MFC Discussion Boards

tingu13-Mar-08 9:03

13-Mar-08 9:03

I am looking for a C++ function which can identify the architecture of an executable file (binary) e.g. whether it is a 32 bit or 64 bit. I heard such a function might be available in imagehlp.dll

Can somebody help?

Re: Identify 32 bit binary or 64 bit binary

led mike13-Mar-08 9:15

led mike

13-Mar-08 9:15

harsha1305 wrote:
I heard such a function might be available in imagehlp.dll

Excellent! Please post back what you find after reading the imagehlp documentation

Re: Identify 32 bit binary or 64 bit binary

ThatsAlok13-Mar-08 19:56

ThatsAlok

13-Mar-08 19:56

led mike wrote:
Excellent! Please post back what you find after reading the imagehlp documentation

he he he.. please let me know also... any way some voted you down, let me average it down!

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Re: Identify 32 bit binary or 64 bit binary

led mike14-Mar-08 6:44

led mike

14-Mar-08 6:44

Like I care if monkeys on this site vote me down. I can still read documentation and develop my own software, monkey votes will never change that.

Re: Identify 32 bit binary or 64 bit binary

Mark Salsbery13-Mar-08 9:16

Mark Salsbery

13-Mar-08 9:16

In imagehlp, maybe MapAndLoad()[^]
and LOADED_IMAGE.FileHeader.Machine.

Mark

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Re: Identify 32 bit binary or 64 bit binary

led mike13-Mar-08 10:21

led mike

13-Mar-08 10:21

Just curious, what did you find attractive about that bait? Big Grin | :-D

Re: Identify 32 bit binary or 64 bit binary

Mark Salsbery13-Mar-08 10:39

Mark Salsbery

13-Mar-08 10:39

Its wigglyness?

I was going to say "Someone has to do their research for them" until I saw the post below...

Apparently, somebody has to write the code for them Smile | :)

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Re: Identify 32 bit binary or 64 bit binary [modified]

Randor 13-Mar-08 10:25

Randor

13-Mar-08 10:25

Im feeling generous today. I created a function for you.

DWORD GetPEMachineType(LPTSTR sz)
{
	HANDLE hFile = CreateFile(sz,GENERIC_WRITE | GENERIC_READ, FILE_SHARE_READ | FILE_SHARE_WRITE,NULL,OPEN_EXISTING,FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL,NULL);
	if(NULL != hFile)
	{
		LARGE_INTEGER bigInt;
		BOOL diditWork = GetFileSizeEx(hFile, &bigInt);
		HANDLE hFileMap = CreateFileMapping(hFile,NULL,PAGE_READWRITE,bigInt.HighPart,bigInt.LowPart + 0x2000 ,_T("someGUID"));
		if(NULL != hFileMap)
		{
			LPVOID hMap = MapViewOfFile(hFileMap,FILE_MAP_READ,0,0,0);
			if(NULL != hMap)
			{
				HMODULE hModule = (HMODULE)hMap;
				IMAGE_DOS_HEADER * pDosHeader = (IMAGE_DOS_HEADER *)hModule;
				IMAGE_FILE_HEADER * pFileHeader = (IMAGE_FILE_HEADER *)(((LPBYTE)hModule) + pDosHeader->e_lfanew + sizeof(IMAGE_NT_SIGNATURE));
				return pFileHeader->Machine;
			}
		}
	}
}

Here is a link to the current PE format specification:

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/firmware/PECOFF.mspx[^]

The possibilities include:

IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_UNKNOWN 0x0 The contents of this field are assumed to be applicable to any machine type
IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_AM33 0x1d3 Matsushita AM33
IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_AMD64 0x8664 x64
IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_ARM 0x1c0 ARM little endian
IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_EBC 0xebc EFI byte code
IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_I386 0x14c Intel 386 or later processors and compatible processors
IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_IA64 0x200 Intel Itanium processor family
IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_M32R 0x9041 Mitsubishi M32R little endian
IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_MIPS16 0x266 MIPS16
IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_MIPSFPU 0x366 MIPS with FPU
IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_MIPSFPU16 0x466 MIPS16 with FPU
IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_POWERPC 0x1f0 Power PC little endian
IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_POWERPCFP 0x1f1 Power PC with floating point support
IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_R4000 0x166 MIPS little endian
IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_SH3 0x1a2 Hitachi SH3
IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_SH3DSP 0x1a3 Hitachi SH3 DSP
IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_SH4 0x1a6 Hitachi SH4
IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_SH5 0x1a8 Hitachi SH5
IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_THUMB 0x1c2 Thumb
IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_WCEMIPSV2 0x169 MIPS little-endian WCE v2

Best Wishes,
-David Delaune

modified on Thursday, March 13, 2008 4:32 PM

Re: Identify 32 bit binary or 64 bit binary

led mike13-Mar-08 10:33

led mike

13-Mar-08 10:33

Randor wrote:
Im feeling generous today. I created a function for you.

Now all you have to do is hope you never have to work with him since you may have just helped him stay employed in the industry.

Re: Identify 32 bit binary or 64 bit binary

Randor 13-Mar-08 10:38

Randor

13-Mar-08 10:38

Look on the bright side, thats one less homeless person to worry about.

-David Delaune

Re: Identify 32 bit binary or 64 bit binary

ThatsAlok13-Mar-08 19:58

ThatsAlok

13-Mar-08 19:58

Randor wrote:
Look on the bright side, thats one less homeless person to worry about.

RIght you say! 5 point!

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Re: Identify 32 bit binary or 64 bit binary

Rajkumar R14-Mar-08 3:05

Rajkumar R

14-Mar-08 3:05

Buddy, i also igree with you. My 5! for his all reply in this topic.

Re: Identify 32 bit binary or 64 bit binary

tingu13-Mar-08 11:14

tingu

13-Mar-08 11:14

Thanks David.

Re: Identify 32 bit binary or 64 bit binary

ThatsAlok13-Mar-08 20:31

ThatsAlok

13-Mar-08 20:31

I have included your tip in my site...!

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Checking for user key press while looping

Californian213-Mar-08 7:23

Californian2

13-Mar-08 7:23

I'm using a "for" loop which repeats many times and has the potential to be time consuming. I want to be able to break out of the loop when the user hits some key to cancel the operation. The only way I have found to do this is to call GetAsyncKeyState from within the loop, and break out of the loop when it indicates a key has been pressed since the last check was made.

Is this a good way to do this check, or is there some other, better way?

Thanks in advance.

Smile | :)

Re: Checking for user key press while looping

Rajesh R Subramanian13-Mar-08 7:27

Rajesh R Subramanian

13-Mar-08 7:27

Californian2 wrote:
Is this a good way to do this check, or is there some other, better way?

A better way is to give a cancel button, and pump the messages manually within the loop. Smile | :)

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Re: Checking for user key press while looping

Californian213-Mar-08 7:30

Californian2

13-Mar-08 7:30

What do you mean by "pump the messages manually within the loop"?

Smile | :)

Re: Checking for user key press while looping

Rajesh R Subramanian13-Mar-08 7:33

Rajesh R Subramanian

13-Mar-08 7:33

I've modified my previous reply to you to add a reference. Please have a look at it. Smile | :)

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Re: Checking for user key press while looping

Eytukan13-Mar-08 7:33

Eytukan

13-Mar-08 7:33

Are threads not allowed here?

OK,. what country just started work for the day ? The ASP.NET forum is flooded with retarded questions. -Christian Graus

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Re: Checking for user key press while looping

Rajesh R Subramanian13-Mar-08 7:36

Rajesh R Subramanian

13-Mar-08 7:36

VuNic wrote:
Are threads not allowed here?

I don't see what you're smoking, but threads are allowed here. Mostly, the threads will all be related to Visual C++ / MFC. Poke tongue | ;-P

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Re: Checking for user key press while looping

Eytukan13-Mar-08 7:44

Eytukan

13-Mar-08 7:44

lol

PostQuitMessage("Goodnight!");

OK,. what country just started work for the day ? The ASP.NET forum is flooded with retarded questions. -Christian Graus

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Re: Checking for user key press while looping

Californian213-Mar-08 7:42

Californian2

13-Mar-08 7:42

This operation is actually within a dll, and I won't be controlling various threads.

Smile | :)

Re: Checking for user key press while looping

ThatsAlok13-Mar-08 20:32

ThatsAlok

13-Mar-08 20:32

no! no multithreading is allowed here

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Recommendations for language and IDE

ldsdbomber13-Mar-08 7:18

ldsdbomber

13-Mar-08 7:18

I'm going to start getting back "into" some coding again after a hiatus (actually it's a fairly long one, though I did briefly do some stuff for work here). I've always used Visual Studio 6 and C++/MFC. I have a new vista laptop and even after the patches, found that my shiny new VS 2005 that work bought for me doesn't always work properly when writing simple dialog apps with controls. On the whole, that's the kind of thing I would like to do a lot of, though I will try out "proper" MDI applications at some point.

My point is this - I see a lot written now about .NET and C#, am I better off looking at that and learning those from scratch, or should I just refresh and improve my knowledge with C++/MFC in particular. These won't likely be "hardcore" industrial apps, but I would like to write things that are a bit more robust at some point.

I think at work they might well get an old VS installed at some point, maybe even v6, but at home, it seems a shame that I'm a bit suspicious of VS2005 which is newer of course.

Basically, any advice would be welcome, this isn't spam or trying to get controversy or arguments, nor do I really need any cryptic replies like "use what you feel most comfortable with". I'm at a point where I really can think about where to invest a bit of time and self learning and start playing around. If someone can tell me about other IDE's or perhaps quell my fears about VS2005 in Vista (I even read that you need Vista Business - not sure which I have, but I don't have the most expensive version, nor the cheapest) then perhaps I'm Ok just carrying on with simple dialog apps in MFC for now, but am I missing the boat here, is C# and .NET taking over?

Re: Recommendations for language and IDE

Mark Salsbery13-Mar-08 7:39

Mark Salsbery

13-Mar-08 7:39

ldsdbomber wrote:
or trying to get controversy or arguments, nor do I really need any cryptic replies like "use what you feel most comfortable with"

Unfortunately, all you're going to get are opinions.

Research the options and decide what's best for you!

I personally would not use VC6 anymore if you have VS 2005.
With VS 2005 and beyond you'll have many more options in one package,
include improved MFC, improved C++ compiler, C++/CLI, C#, ...

But that's just my opinion. Smile | :)

Mark

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