Please explain what RVA and VA means
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See the wikipedia article on COFF (Common Object File Format):
Relative Virtual Addresses (RVAs) are not to be confused with standard virtual addresses. A relative virtual address is the virtual address of an object from the file once it is loaded into memory, minus the base address of the file image. If the file were to be mapped literally from disk to memory, the RVA would be the same as that of the offset into the file, but this is actually quite unusual.
tvanfosson
2009-12-08 17:39:04
Why people created concept of RVA? for what?
Lee Jae Beom
2009-12-09 04:44:44
It is used for quickly identifying the location inside a DLL at which data resides when you have no idea at the time of writing the code at what address the DLL will be loaded.
Stephen Kellett
2010-03-16 17:31:27