applications are built. HAL.DLL is a kernel-mode library file and it cannot be used by any user-mode program. NTDLL.DLL is only used by some programs...

implemented in ntoskrnl.exe and are exposed to user mode by ntdll.dll. The entry point of ntdll.dll is LdrInitializeThunk. Native API calls are handled by...

referenced functions such as RtlExAllocateHeap in ntdll.dll, which did not exist in the final ntdll.dll, so if Windows even allowed you to run it (with...

However, it is not a native application thus it is not linked against ntdll.dll. Instead, ntoskrnl.exe has its own entry point "KiSystemStartup" that...

they invoke. On Windows NT, that API is part of the Native API, in the ntdll.dll library; this is an undocumented API used by implementations of the regular...

overwritten return address. Used in this way, the method is often referred to as "DLL trampolining". Various techniques have been used to detect or prevent buffer...

LdrInitializeThunk function contained in ntdll.dll, which does the following: initialisation of structures in the DLL itself (i.e. critical sections, module...

calling into the OS personality DLLs mapped into their address spaces, which in turn call into the NT run-time library (ntdll.dll), also mapped into the process...

signals. The name varies in different versions of VC runtime ntdll.dll and kernel32.dll, as well as other programs linked statically with VC runtime,...

calling into the OS personality DLLs mapped into their address spaces, which in turn call into the NT run-time library (ntdll.dll), also mapped into the process...

AMD64. The 64-bit Windows Native Mode driver environment runs atop 64-bit NTDLL.DLL, which cannot call 32-bit Win32 subsystem code (often devices whose actual...

WinObj is a Windows NT program that uses the NT Native API (provided by NTDLL.DLL) to access and display information on the NT Object Manager's name space...

by the application-mode code in the operating system libraries, such as NTDLL, that executes outside of kernel mode, such as the code for the program...

both Windows DLLs and Unix shared objects for its Windows programs. Its built-in implementation of the most basic Windows DLLs, namely NTDLL, KERNEL32,...

benefit from Wine's progress in implementing the Win32 API. While Wine's NTDLL, USER32, KERNEL32, GDI32, and ADVAPI32 components cannot be used directly...