Home/ Questions/Q 8571263
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-06-11T18:44:38+00:00

I’ve used this as a reference, but it doesn’t appear to be complete. When

  • 0

I’ve used this as a reference, but it doesn’t appear to be complete. When I set /NODEFAULTLIB, I get linker errors about missing __except_list, __load_config_used, and a few other things apparently related to SEH. It’s easy enough to get _CxxThrowException and friends linked correctly, but I have no idea what __except_list is supposed to be and I don’t know where to start looking.

I’m using both MSC and IC. When using IC, the linker reports __except_list as missing, though this is not the case with MSC.

For those of you who’s favorite answer is “why?”: It’s because I want to know how this works, and I’m tired of do-nothing test applications starting life with 300kb committed for absolutely no reason.

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    If you want to get rid of CRT dependency, then pass /Zl option to the compiler. Linker does not need any special options (compiler won’t insert
    /DEFAULTLIB:... into .drectve section, so linker won’t bind your EXE to any CRT).
    Of course you shouldn’t be using C++ exceptions or heap in your code; or you need to provide your own version of library functions written in assembly language.

    • 0