Re: name decoration

From:
"Alexander Nickolov" <agnickolov@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Thu, 10 May 2007 12:08:58 -0700
Message-ID:
<O5feqazkHHA.744@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>
Each calling convention includes a default name mangling as well.
For stdcall you get an underscore, @ and number of bytes for
arguments. For cdecl you only get an underscore. For pascal
you get nothing IIRC - the plain name. Not sure about fastcall.
And thiscall requires C++ name mangling naturally.

You change that by intrdocuing a .def file as Igor explained.

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<mike7411@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1178810121.840068.114240@p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...

I am building a DLL that contains a callback function for a hook.

I noticed that if I use the CALLBACK macro, it decorates the function
name like so:

_MyFunc@12

This happens even if I use extern "C". I was hoping that it would
simply store the function name in the DLL as MyFunc.

Then, I could do:

GetProcAddress(hinstLib, "MyFunc");

instead of:

GetProcAddress(hinstLib, "_MyFunc@12");

So, I was wondering why the CALLBACK macro forces name decoration.

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