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The specific issue is;:

> Many internal data structures and internal functions, not exported anywhere and not part of the public symbols, have the exact same names as they appear in the Research Kernel (which, by the way, is quite obsolete). There is an almost surely zero probability that this happened, at that scale, by accident.

Unfortunately I don’t think anyone who doesn’t have access to the research kernel is capable of answering.




Even if someone had access to compare it, I wouldn't put the probability at 0. Windows has a pretty specific way of naming types, fields and functions. Some of those leak through error messages and other methods of introspection. They're have to match on a few very esoteric private fields to support that argument.


He didn't know that Microsoft had shipped private symbols publicly by accident several times.




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