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If the article had answered my question, I wouldn't have asked.


More details here then if you are still unclear...

https://wiki.osdev.org/PE

tl;dr: Yes, it was originally by design, but very rarely used in practice (most use the default text you mentioned), and isn’t exactly straightforward in some tooling (but not hard either, as evidenced by the simple Python script here).


the bottom paragraph of the readme seems to agree with basically what you said, by design.




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