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It is the standard format for executables on Windows NT-based systems, including files such as .exe, .dll, .sys (for system drivers), and .mui. At its core, the PE format is a structured data container that gives the Windows operating system loader everything it needs to properly manage the executable code it contains.
Version 5.2 files are dated April 11, 2007. 5.2 runtime does not support applications coded for 5.1 or before. Introduced June 5, 2007, adding code samples for data compression, new video codec support, support for 64-bit applications on Mac OS X, support for Windows Vista, and new functions for ray-tracing and rendering.
A dynamic-link library (DLL) is a shared library in the Microsoft Windows or OS/2 operating system. A DLL can contain executable code (functions), data, and resources. A DLL file often has file extension.dll even though this is not required. The extension is sometimes used to describe the content of the file.
DLL hell is an umbrella term for the complications that arise when one works with dynamic-link libraries (DLLs) used with older Microsoft Windows operating systems, [1] particularly legacy 16-bit editions, which all run in a single memory space.
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition is designed to use the expanded 64-bit memory address space provided by the x86-64 64-bit extensions to the x86 IA-32 architecture, [1] which was implemented by AMD as "AMD64", found in AMD's Opteron, Athlon 64 chips (and in selected Sempron processors), and implemented by Intel as "Intel 64" (formerly known ...
Wow64win.dll, which provides the appropriate entry-points for 32-bit applications (win32k thunks) A dll that allows 32-bit x86 instructions to be executed, which varies by instruction set architecture. On x86-64, Wow64cpu.dll takes care of switching the processor from 32-bit to 64-bit mode. This is computationally cheap, as x86-64 machines have ...
Win64 is the version in the 64-bit platforms of the Windows architecture (as of 2021, x86-64 and AArch64). [b] [25] [26] Both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of an application can be compiled from one codebase, although some
AMD64 (also variously referred to by AMD in their literature and documentation as “AMD 64-bit Technology” and “AMD x86-64 Architecture”) was created as an alternative to the radically different IA-64 architecture designed by Intel and Hewlett-Packard, which was backward-incompatible with IA-32, the 32-bit version of the x86 architecture.