I'm not sure of how many users there are out there that use the LCC C compiler and the WEdit GUI for Windows but it has a "feature" that is can get to be quite annoying. When you start an application with the debugger, it breaks the application at the start of the Main function. How can I cut this off so that the debugger immediately executes the code until I halt it or it hits a break point that I've created?
Wow, people still use LCC... Last time I used it was ~10 years ago.
I decompiled wedit.exe
and can confirm there is no official way to disable this behavior.
I patched the binary if that works for you. I uploaded it here.
To those who concerned about viruses and such I patched wedit
taken from here. About box says it's version 4.0 compiled at Sep 16 2009.
Here is patched function to those who interested:
int __cdecl sub_44CF0D(HANDLE hProcess)
{
int result; // eax@1
int v2; // ST0C_4@10
int v3; // eax@20
int v4; // eax@23
int v5; // eax@25
int v6; // [sp+10h] [bp-68h]@11
int v7; // [sp+14h] [bp-64h]@1
struct _DEBUG_EVENT DebugEvent; // [sp+18h] [bp-60h]@1
v7 = 1;
result = WaitForDebugEvent(&DebugEvent, dwMilliseconds);
if ( result )
{
sub_44C67A(&DebugEvent);
if ( DebugEvent.dwDebugEventCode == 1 )
{
if ( DebugEvent.u.Exception.ExceptionRecord.ExceptionCode == EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION
&& !(dword_482860 & 1)
&& !dword_484328
&& DebugEvent.u.Exception.dwFirstChance )
{
sub_44E1A5(0);
sub_44CEB2(v2);
return ContinueDebugEvent(DebugEvent.dwProcessId, DebugEvent.dwThreadId, 0x80010001u);
}
v6 = 0;
v7 = sub_44D2C4((int)&DebugEvent, hProcess, (int)&v6);
if ( v6 && DebugEvent.u.Exception.dwFirstChance )
return ContinueDebugEvent(DebugEvent.dwProcessId, DebugEvent.dwThreadId, 0x80010001u);
goto LABEL_41;
}
if ( DebugEvent.dwDebugEventCode == 3 )
{
if ( dword_483C94 )
{
dword_48428C = 1;
LABEL_41:
if ( dword_483C6C )
sub_44ECDC();
if ( v7 )
{
result = ContinueDebugEvent(DebugEvent.dwProcessId, DebugEvent.dwThreadId, 0x10002u);
}
else
{
dword_49BF68 = 1;
ResetEvent(dword_484AE4);
dword_4843C8 = DebugEvent.dwThreadId;
result = sub_4524CD();
}
return result;
}
Sleep(0x32u);
dword_49BF64 = 1;
dword_49BF68 = 1;
qword_483C74 = __PAIR__(
(unsigned int)DebugEvent.u.Exception.ExceptionRecord.ExceptionAddress,
DebugEvent.u.Exception.ExceptionRecord.ExceptionInformation[2]);
if ( dword_484288 )
::hProcess = (HANDLE)DebugEvent.u.Exception.ExceptionRecord.ExceptionFlags;
else
::hProcess = hProcess;
dword_483C84 = DebugEvent.dwProcessId;
hThread = DebugEvent.u.Exception.ExceptionRecord.ExceptionRecord;
dword_483C9C = (HANDLE)DebugEvent.u.Exception.ExceptionRecord.ExceptionCode;
dwThreadId = DebugEvent.dwThreadId;
dword_483C94 = 0;
if ( sub_45A83A() )
{
v4 = sub_4026A6(28);
dword_484330 = v4;
*(_DWORD *)(v4 + 4) = hThread;
*(_DWORD *)(v4 + 8) = dwThreadId;
if ( dword_484288 )
{
sub_455B58();
}
else
{
Sleep(0x64u);
v5 = sub_45AAFC();
if ( !v5 )
return PostMessageA(dword_4849EC, 0x111u, 0x64u, 0);
if ( dword_484354 )
goto LABEL_50;
sub_455B58();
if ( dword_483C70 && *(_DWORD *)(dword_483C70 + 52) )
*(_DWORD *)(*(_DWORD *)(dword_483C70 + 52) + 36) = sub_451577(**(_DWORD **)(dword_483C70 + 52), 1u);
v5 = *(_DWORD *)(dword_483C70 + 52);
if ( v5 && *(_DWORD *)(v5 + 36) )
{
LABEL_50:
if ( !dword_483C6C )
sub_44E92A(v5);
sub_44CC3D();
sub_451600();
PostMessageA(dword_4849EC, 0x111u, 0x154u, 0);
}
else
{
sub_4029CA("Imposible to find %s\nRunning without source display", *(_DWORD *)(dword_483C70 + 20));
dword_484344 = 1;
v7 = 1;
PostMessageA(dword_4849EC, 0x111u, 0x154u, 0);
}
}
goto LABEL_41;
}
dword_484338 = 1;
v3 = sub_44DB56(qword_483C74);
if ( v3 )
*(_BYTE *)(v3 + 29) &= 0xFDu;
result = ContinueDebugEvent(DebugEvent.dwProcessId, DebugEvent.dwThreadId, 0x10002u);
}
else
{
if ( DebugEvent.dwDebugEventCode != 5 )
goto LABEL_41;
if ( DebugEvent.dwProcessId != dword_483C84 )
{
v7 = 1;
goto LABEL_41;
}
dword_49BF64 = 0;
dword_49BF68 = 1;
dword_481614 = 0;
result = sub_402A32(4520, SLOBYTE(DebugEvent.u.Exception.ExceptionRecord.ExceptionCode));
if ( !dword_483C6C )
result = sub_40B155(lpCmdLine);
}
}
else
{
if ( dword_483C6C )
result = sub_44ECDC();
}
return result;
}
if
under LABEL_50
is what I patched (from 0x75 to 0xEB).
It was easy to spot the place because I expected WriteProcessMemory to be used to write 0xCC at entry-point of application that is being debugged.