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harsha1305 wrote:

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

led mike wrote:

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

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;
			}
		}
	}
}

Randor wrote:

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

Randor wrote:

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

Californian2 wrote:

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

VuNic wrote:

Are threads not allowed here?

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"

Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++