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I cant find a thread with general questions about plugins that are not really worth a thread of it own but this thread seems to have a lot of general questions so I'll put mine here as well.

In my plugin I'm trying to read some information from the tables that hold the native functions and the public functions by directly accessing it.
I use the pointer to the AMX structure that I have in the the plugin to get the address of the AMX_HEADER structure which holds offsets to those tables.
This all works fine but whenever I try to read something from those tables the application crashes.
I dont know a lot about reading from memory in other locations like that but I have heard of some things that can prevent it and that you need to use something to lift that protection.

What I think is odd about this is that I can read the offsets to the tables out of the header just fine but I cant read data out of the tables.
I am using the address of the header and adding the offset to the tables to get their addresses.

Below is the code I use for my test right now which is only for the native functions table, it crashes on the first loop.

pawn Code:

PLUGIN_EXPORT int PLUGIN_CALL AmxLoad(AMX *amx)
{
    AMX_HEADER* header = (AMX_HEADER*)amx->base;
    AMX_NATIVE_INFO** natives = (AMX_NATIVE_INFO**)(header + header->natives);
    int count = (header->libraries - header->natives) / header->defsize;
    logprintf("%d native functions, header address %d, native table address %d", count, header, natives);
    for(int i=0; i<count; i++)
        logprintf("Native function %s, at index %d, address %d", natives[i]->name, i, natives[i]->func);
    return 0;
}

It prints the addresses just fine and the number of native functions matches the number I get from amx_NumNatives so I think that works fine.
I know I am doing something else wrong or I need to lift some kind of protection but I am unable to get it to work.

For those of you wondering why I want to read data from those tables, I actually dont but I'm planning to change some data there later to try and hook some things so they get called directly in my plugin.
Being able to read data there is just a test in learning about the data structures and how to access them.

Edit: I've found what I'm doing wrong.
I'm using a pointer to an array of pointers for AMX_NATIVE_INFO instead of a pointer to an array.
It doesnt crash anymore now but it's returning empty data, now I'll need figure out what causes that...