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How are DLL functions exported in 32-bit Windows?

July 18, 2006 Jul 18, 2006 07/18/06

Raymond Chen

The designers of 32-bit Windows didn't have to worry quite so much about squeezing everything into 256KB of memory. Since modules in Win32 are based on demand-paging, all you have to do is map the entire image into memory and then run around accessing the parts you need. There is no distinction between resident and non-resident names; the ...