September 13, 2010

Why doesn't Win32 give you the option of ignoring failures in DLL import resolution?

September 13, 2010 Sep 13, 2010 09/13/10

Raymond Chen

Yuhong Bao asked, via the Suggestion Box, "Why not implement delay-loading by having a flag in the import entry specifying that Windows should mimic the Windows 3.1 behavior for resolving that import?" Okay, first we have to clear up the false assumptions in the question. The question assumes that Windows 3.1 had delay-loading ...

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Why doesn't Win32 give you the option of ignoring failures in DLL import resolution?