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How do I forward an exported function to an ordinal in another DLL?

November 16, 2012 Nov 16, 2012 11/16/12

Raymond Chen

The syntax for specifying that requests to import a function from your DLL should be forwarded to another DLL is This says that if somebody tries to call from , they are really calling in . This forwarding is done in the loader. Normally, when a client links to the function , the loader says, "Okay, let me get the address of the ...