verify if largeAddressAware is in effect?

Question

I followed the steps in:

http://lennybacon.com/2010/10/18/UltimateGuideToSpeedUpVisualStudio.aspx

to make my Visual Studio 2010 faster, including the advice toward the bottom labeled "64 bit support" about running editbin /largeaddressaware deveenv.exe . Is there any way I can verify that this command "worked"?

Answer 1

Yes there is, and the necessary tool is included with VS.

Open the "Visual Studio Command Prompt (2010)" console from the start menu, and CD into C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE (adjust for your own system if you have changed the installation directory or run 64-bit Windows).

Then do:

dumpbin /headers devenv.exe | more 

The start of the output on my machine is:

Dump of file devenv.exe  PE signature found  File Type: EXECUTABLE IMAGE  FILE HEADER VALUES              14C machine (x86)                4 number of sections         4BA1FAB3 time date stamp Thu Mar 18 12:04:35 2010                0 file pointer to symbol table                0 number of symbols               E0 size of optional header              122 characteristics                    Executable                    Application can handle large (>2GB) addresses                    32 bit word machine 

The second to last line is what you are looking for -- if it's there, your executable is large address aware.

Answer 2

Since I didn't want to install a 1.6 GB heavy add-on to visual studio, I figured an alternative way.

You can upload the .exe onto www.virustotal.com, then under details you can see this near the bottom

ImageFileCharacteristicsExecutable, Large address aware