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UPX 3.06 - 2010-09-04 - TLS (Announce)

posted by DOS386, 08.09.2010, 19:33

Thanks.

> > - Why would a Win32 devel have/want to use TLS ?

> TLS is nearly a requirement if you use threads. The concept is not unique

7-ZIP always worked for me with its threads, no TLS issues ...

> TLS callbacks are different. This is mainly a problem in heterogenous
> programs (programs in different lanugages/runtimes, but also when e.g. DLLs
> and .exe's in the same language are produced independantly)

interesting ...

> malware abuses this to run code before main() to fool naieve antivirusses.



> In short, any thread capable runtime will sooner or later gravitate to TLS,
> but non-native Windows compilers (like gcc) might not exploit all Windows
> features (e.g. register them via PE tables)

wow ...

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Complete thread:

• UPX 3.06 - 2010-09-04 - TLS - DOS386, 07.09.2010, 00:11
  • UPX 3.06 - 2010-09-04 - TLS - roytam, 07.09.2010, 11:53
    • UPX 3.06 - 2010-09-04 - TLS - roytam, 07.09.2010, 12:19
  • UPX 3.06 - 2010-09-04 - TLS - Arjay, 07.09.2010, 18:31
    • UPX 3.06 - 2010-09-04 - TLS - DOS386, 08.09.2010, 00:46
      • UPX 3.06 - 2010-09-04 - TLS - marcov, 08.09.2010, 10:20
        • UPX 3.06 - 2010-09-04 - TLS - DOS386, 08.09.2010, 19:33
          • UPX 3.06 - 2010-09-04 - TLS - marcov, 10.09.2010, 09:23
  • UPX 3.07 - 2010-09-08 - TLS - RayeR, 09.09.2010, 01:19
    • UPX 3.07 - 2010-09-08 - TLS - shot - DOS386, 11.09.2010, 01:30
      • UPX 3.07 - 2010-09-08 - (dumb served died with my shot) - DOS386, 13.10.2010, 03:40