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EmulatorPkg: Improve comments in WinThunk.c

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with EmulatorPkg, and several details were no longer technically accurate.

Cc: Andrew Fish <afish@apple.com>
Reviewed-by: Ray Ni <ray.ni@intel.com>
Cc: Michael D Kinney <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>
Cc: Chasel Chiu <chasel.chiu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Nate DeSimone <nathaniel.l.desimone@intel.com>
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Nate DeSimone 2023-09-20 16:18:18 -07:00 committed by mergify[bot]
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@ -10,21 +10,14 @@ Module Name:
Abstract: Abstract:
Since the SEC is the only windows program in our emulation we Since the SEC is the only windows program in our emulation we
must use a Tiano mechanism to export Win32 APIs to other modules. must use a Tiano mechanism to export operating system services
This is the role of the EFI_WIN_NT_THUNK_PROTOCOL. to other modules. This is the role of the EMU_THUNK_PROTOCOL.
The mWinNtThunkTable exists so that a change to EFI_WIN_NT_THUNK_PROTOCOL The gEmuThunkProtocol exists so that a change to EMU_THUNK_PROTOCOL
will cause an error in initializing the array if all the member functions will cause an error in initializing the array if all the member functions
are not added. It looks like adding a element to end and not initializing are not added. It looks like adding a element to end and not initializing
it may cause the table to be initaliized with the members at the end being it may cause the table to be initalized with the members at the end being
set to zero. This is bad as jumping to zero will case the NT32 to crash. set to zero. This is bad as jumping to zero will case EmulatorPkg to crash.
All the member functions in mWinNtThunkTable are Win32
API calls, so please reference Microsoft documentation.
gWinNt is a a public exported global that contains the initialized
data.
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