Re: [BLACKBOX] Decorated names in dlls

From: [at]} <Chris>
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:23:47 +0930

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: BlackBox [mailto:BLACKBOX{([at]})nowhere.xy
>Douglas G. Danforth
>Sent: Monday, 13 June 2011 1:12 PM
>To: BLACKBOX{([at]})nowhere.xy
>Subject: [BLACKBOX] Decorated names in dlls
>
>Folks,
>
>I have been having a devil of time getting a dll (given to me
>by a third party) to find the exported procedures.
>
>Well it turns out that they have "decorated names" produced by
>C++ even though the people who created the dll don't know that.

I believe this is commonly referred to as the "name mangling" that C++
compilers perform. e.g.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_C%2B%2B_Name_Mangling

Note the quote: "The C++ language does not define a standard decoration
scheme, so Microsoft Visual C++ uses its own." :-(

Regards,
Chris

Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.cfbsoftware.com

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