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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 22, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Matthew R. Siegel, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/5177 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/5177 ;
Abstract
An improved method for initializing an auxiliary code resource is provided. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a computer system has a multiple entry point code resource consisting of a main code resource, which contains global variables, and a plurality of auxiliary code resources. The method of the first aspect of the present invention provides for loading the auxiliary code resource into memory, searching the auxiliary resource for markers and, upon locating the markers, storing a reference to the global variables into the sequence of markers.