The KFW libraries do not have ordinals that are fixed to specific values via assignment in the .DEF file. This is the result of conflicts which occurred when various forks of the code base in the late 90s resulted in different binary distributions assigning different ordinal values to the same function or different functions to the same ordinal value. As a result applications which were linked against one distribution and then run with the libraries from another distribution would often crash.
In response all of the ordinal assignments were removed in order to get rid of the expectation that ordinals would remain fixed from release to release. It has been almost a decade since then and the number of forked distributions has decreased dramatically. In addition we are preparing to support 64-bit Windows, a platform on which there has never been any forking. As a result, we intend to assign fixed ordinal values again. My proposal for generating the ordinal values to use for assignment is to execute "dumpbin /export" against a pre-beta KFW 3.2.2 distribution and hard code the assigned ordinal values into each of the .DEF files. Does this seem reasonable? Are there any objections to the assignment of static ordinal values in 32-bit KFW? Jeffrey Altman
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