PEDEMO.ASM includes empty .reloc section. If I remove it sample still work
Is .reloc section in PE-exe needed or no?
Thanks

it is not needed in standard PE executables, but DLLs need it.

Win32s needs it also for standard PE executables.

anyway, how does this relocation work? does it relocate every used offset?

vid, it relocated "everything that needs to be relocated" - ie, non-eip-relative references to code/data. And the PE is only relocated if the range [imagebase;imagebase+sizeofimage] isn't available when starting the program (which it always is under windows when you have a base address of 0x400000)

2Privalov
I test PE without .reloc in Win32S, it does not work.
(other question, why CreateWindowEx does not work, I can call Message BoxA only, but this is insufficient now)

Second question - why empty .reloc extends EXE-file from 53 to 60Kb?
(PEDEMO extends from 2 to 3 Kb)

And third, PEDEMO includes only second import table, pointer to first table is zero. I use debugger (TD) and disassembler (hiew) and I thiink that it use first table to correct show DLL function calls. I try to set both import table pointers to same location - it work, but is it correct or no?

Thanks