in reply to Re^9: Correct call for dll with Win32::API
in thread Correct call for dll with Win32::API

Of __stdcall, Microsoft says

An underscore (_) is prefixed to the name. The name is followed by the at sign (@) followed by the number of bytes (in decimal) in the argument list. Therefore, the function declared as int func( int a, double b ) is decorated as follows: _func@12

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Re^11: Correct call for dll with Win32::API
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Dec 05, 2008 at 14:40 UTC

    You are correct. Thankyou.

    I reversed the meaning of the underscore in my mind (and the presence of the WINAPI in the docs stopped any alarm bell from ringing).

    I've updated the post above accordingly.

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      But dumpbin doesn't list leading underscores for the functions in kernel32.dll either. 
      ...
          1    0 0000A6D4 ActivateActCtx
          2    1 00035505 AddAtomA
          3    2 000326D9 AddAtomW
          4    3 00071CDF AddConsoleAliasA
          5    4 00071CA1 AddConsoleAliasW
          6    5 00059382 AddLocalAlternateComputerNameA
          7    6 00059266 AddLocalAlternateComputerNameW
          8    7 0002BEF9 AddRefActCtx
          9    8          AddVectoredExceptionHandler (forwarded to NT
+DLL.RtlAddVectoredExceptionHandler)
         10    9 00072331 AllocConsole
...

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