FIX: EXEHDR Hangs on Windows-Based Apps Using VERSIONINFO

The information in this article applies to:

• Microsoft EXEHDR Utility for MS-DOS, version 3.0 (included with C/C++ for MS-DOS, version 7.0)
• Microsoft EXEHDR Utility for MS-DOS, version 3.1 (included with Visual C++ for Windows, version 1.0)

SYMPTOMS

The EXEHDR utility may hang or generate error message U1107, "unexpected end of resident/nonresident name table", if you use it on a Windows application containing a VERSIONINFO resource. (Actually, in this situation, version 3.0 of EXEHDR is more likely to generate the U1107 error message, while version 3.1 of EXEHDR is more likely to hang.)

RESOLUTION

Make sure that the application does not use any symbol names longer than 128 bytes in the VERSIONINFO section of the .RC file.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in EXEHDR, versions 3.0 and 3.1. The problem was corrected in EXEHDR, version 3.2 (included with Visual C++ for Windows, version 1.5).

MORE INFORMATION

You can use the NWPOPUP application, supplied with Windows version 3.1, to illustrate this problem. To use EXEHDR, simply run the program with the name of the .EXE in question as the argument:

   exehdr nwpopup