Q. What is the declspec(thread) attribute used for in Windows programs?

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Q. How can a thread-local variable be identified while reversing a Windows program?

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Q. What is a data structure?

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Q. What is a generic data structure?

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Q. What is the important thing to remember about generic data structures?

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Q. Can a data structure have a variable-sized array as its last member?

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Q. Where do generic data structures usually reside?

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Q. Why are data structures usually aligned to the processor's native word-size boundaries?

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Q. What is a good example of a Boolean member in a 32-bit-aligned structure?

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Q. Why do compilers usually align data structure member sizes to the processor's word size?

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Q. Why is it not worthwhile to create a 1-bit-long data member in a 32-bit-aligned structure?

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Q. What is the smallest unit that 32-bit processors can directly address?

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Q. Why would assigning a full byte to a Boolean still result in a significant performance penalty?

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Q. What kind of data structures can you expect to see mostly when reversing with most compilers?

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Q. What is an array?

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Q. Why are array accesses generally easy to detect when reversing?

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Q. How can an array be confused with a conventional data structure?

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Q. What are generic data type arrays?

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Q. How is the index of a generic data type array managed?

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Q. What is a data structure array?

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