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bburger	31 Aug, 2008 - 06:08 PM Post #1
New D.I.C Head Joined: 31 Aug, 2008 Posts: 1	Im trying to build an operatig system and I want to decompile the WinXP kernel. Does anyone know if it is in C, C++, etc.? (Im not trying to copy the thing entirely ya know. Just lookin at the skeleton...)
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Martyr2	RE: Windows Xp Kernel 31 Aug, 2008 - 06:14 PM Post #2
Programming Theoretician Joined: 18 Apr, 2007 Posts: 5,660 Thanked: 313 times Expert In: C/C++, Java, VB, VB.NET, C#, PHP, Web Development, HTML & CSS, Javascript My Contributions	Best sources say that it is a mix of C++ and Assembly. No one knows for sure but the Kernel itself makes sense to be written in Assembly and DLLs will be C/C++.
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Tom9729	RE: Windows Xp Kernel 31 Aug, 2008 - 06:59 PM Post #3
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perfectly.insane	RE: Windows Xp Kernel 31 Aug, 2008 - 07:33 PM Post #4
D.I.C Addict Joined: 22 Mar, 2008 Posts: 581 Thanked: 46 times Dream Kudos: 25 Expert In: C/C++ My Contributions	You might want to investigate ReactOS (http://www.reactos.org/en/index.html). It's an effort to make an operating system similar to Windows, based on the same design (well, at least as far as what is already known about it). This post has been edited by perfectly.insane: 31 Aug, 2008 - 07:34 PM
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skaoth	RE: Windows Xp Kernel 31 Aug, 2008 - 07:45 PM Post #5
D.I.C Regular Joined: 7 Nov, 2007 Posts: 357 Thanked: 12 times Dream Kudos: 100 My Contributions	I suspect that the kernel is written in C and ASM. Maybe it's changed with Vista, but my understanding was there there is no support for c++ runtime and thus no ability to new, delete or have exceptions with XP and its predecessors. Here is an article for drivers: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/driver/kernel/KMcode.mspx#EDE Edit: I'm talking about the kernel it self, Not the OS. This post has been edited by skaoth: 31 Aug, 2008 - 07:46 PM
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Tom9729	RE: Windows Xp Kernel 31 Aug, 2008 - 08:02 PM Post #6
Debian guru Joined: 30 Dec, 2007 Posts: 1,592 Thanked: 12 times Dream Kudos: 325 My Contributions	Trying to learn systems programming from backwards-engineering the Windows kernel is not something that I think would be a good idea. I've posted a very good resource on the subject, and I have made many posts in the past highlighting others. Drivers != the kernel. User-land drivers can be written in C++, kernel-land drivers cannot.
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born2c0de	RE: Windows Xp Kernel 1 Sep, 2008 - 05:48 AM Post #7
printf("I'm a %XR",195936478); Joined: 26 Nov, 2004 Posts: 4,032 Thanked: 38 times Dream Kudos: 2800 Expert In: 80x86 Assembly, C/C++, VB6, VB.NET, C#, J2SE, Win32 API, Reversing My Contributions	QUOTE I want to decompile the WinXP kernel Good luck with that. You'll need to have a thorough understanding of Reverse Engineering to read the kernel source code. I've attempted it myself, didn't really have the time to keep doing it, but whatever I saw was very very interesting.
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