Running out of pool is likely at least during kmtest:ExPools.
There is a chance of crashing when dereferencing these null pointers -- but
worse, there's also a chance of overwriting the IVT or BDA if a VDM BIOS
call is in progress, which can lead to crashes in non-obvious places later.
Modify the .code16 macro so that the 16-bit code segment can get a
chance to be correctly merged with other (possibly 32-bit) code
segments, without keeping generating multiple .text segments with
different attributes and generating the corresponding LNK4078 warning.
This fixes the warning when compiling NTOSKRNL on MSVC:
"v86.S.obj : warning LNK4078: multiple '.text' sections found with different attributes (C0520040)".
- Always use string pooling when building: this helps reducing the
size of the binaries due to string redundancy coming from the usage
of __FILE__ / __RELFILE__ in the debugging helper macros. Note also
that GCC builds use string pooling by default.
- Use suitable add_compile_flags() command.
- Add some explanative comments for some settings.
Some numbers (obtained with my local builds):
Before / After => Reduction
===========================
freeldr.sys : 443 KB ( 453.632 bytes) / 364 KB ( 372.736 bytes) => ~ 18%
win32k.sys : 1877 KB (1.922.048 bytes) / 1562 KB (1.599.488 bytes) => ~ 17%
ntoskrnl.exe : 2253 KB (2.307.072 bytes) / 1902 KB (1.947.136 bytes) => ~ 15.6%
kernel32.dll : 3008 KB (3.080.192 bytes) / 2906 KB (2.975.744 bytes) => ~ 3.4%
* [WIN32K] Fix handle calculation in DbgGdiHTIntegrityCheck
* [NOTEPAD] Fix MSVC warnings
* [PSDK] Simplify *PROC definitions in windef.h
* [VIDEOPRT] Don't try to use NtVdmControl on x64
* [FREELDR] Fix some macros
* [CRT] Make qsort 64 bit compatible
* [NTOS] Use #ifndef _WIN64 instead of #ifdef _M_IX86 around C_ASSERTs
* [FAST486] Fix 64 bit warnings and change DWORD to ULONG, so it can be used in kernel mode
* [APPHELP_APITEST] Fix 64 bit issue
* Add an NDK header to define INIT_FUNCTION/INIT_SECTION globally
* Use _declspec(allocate(x)) and _declspec(code_seg(x)) on MSVC versions that support it
* Use INIT_FUNCTION on functions only and INIT_SECTION on data only (required by MSVC)
* Place INIT_FUNCTION before the return type (required by MSVC)
* Make sure declarations and implementations share the same modifiers (required by MSVC)
* Add a global linker option to suppress warnings about defined but unused INIT section
* Merge INIT section into .text in freeldr
