Proposal for the assignment of fixed ordinals to exported functionsin kfw dlls

Danny Mayer mayer at ntp.isc.org
Sun Oct 7 23:07:45 EDT 2007


Danilo Almeida wrote:
>> Its not a question of encouragement.  Its a question of making sure that
>> there aren't crash reports in applications that are blamed on KFW. 
>> Consider it "CYA" if you must.
> 
> I see.
> 
> IIRC, if you don't provide ordinals in the .def, the default link
using the import lib is w/o ordinals. But if you provide ordinals, the
import lib will link by ordinals. Is that still the case? Or is there
some way to control that?
> 

No, what happens is that the linker provides the ordinals sequentially
and you have no control over it.

Danny

> - Danilo



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