Re: How the linker imports DLL functions

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On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 16:24:02 -0700, Benjamin wrote:

> Apparently, the stubs really aren't in the .lib, for two reasons:
>
> 1) I checked with the official PE specification -- there cannot be any raw
> data associated to those "pseudo object files" (as the specification calls
> them).
>
> 2) the stub is "jmp dword ptr [...]", in assembly "FF 25" -- but the
> sequence of bytes "FF 25" are not found even once in the entire USER32.LIB !
> (you can check that with a hex editor).
>
> So the stubs simply aren't there. Mystery.

My second guess would be the linker generates them on the fly.

--
Doug Harrison
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
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