Are you referring to .msp’s ?

From: ros-dev-bounces@reactos.org [mailto:ros-dev-bounces@reactos.org] On Behalf Of Hermès BÉLUSCA - MAÏTO
Sent: 28 February 2014 13:53
To: ReactOS Development List
Subject: [ros-dev] About hotpatchable dlls on ReactOS

Hi guys !

It seems to appear that some games need standard APIs hotpatchable, in the sense of MS: few extra bytes present in the prologue of the functions that allow somebody to detour the API. I knew that this feature was useful for windows updates, but what I didn’t know is that there are other programs that use it: see this answer from James on the “Epic Win!” forum thread: http://www.reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10972&p=106823#p106814 , and the following post is something that I’ve found about this subject, and the fact that Wine already have done something about that.

So my question: should we support/create hotpatchable images (of the standard dlls and maybe ?? exes) in ReactOS ? Is it already done ? If not, what needs to be added ? It seems that MSVC and GCC handle that a bit differently.

Cheers,

Hermès BÉLUSCA - MAÏTO