On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 01:30:32PM +0800, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
> Ken Coleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> [...]
> >2. I wanted to verify the ordinal numbers, so I booted up a WinNT 4.0
> >machine to use DUMPBIN. What I found was that all of the ordinal
> >numbers seem to be wrong - the MapVirtualKey* funtions all have ordinals
> >> 400 according to DUMPBIN, but the values in the comments of
> >windows/input.c put them in the range 383-385. Are the comments wrong?
> >Does it even matter? Also, they seem to be out of order -
> >MapVirtualKeyExW should go between MapVirtualKeyExA and MapVirtualKeyW
> >according to DUMPBIN, but there's no empty ordinal in between based on
> >the comments.
>
> As there was explained several times, under Windows all functions, exported
> by name can be assigned an arbitrary ordinal name: those functions are not
> supposed to be imported by ordinal. As confirmation for this statement serves
> MS practice to have different ordinals for those functions for NT and 95/98.
>
I guess an obvious question is why do we even include the ordinals in comments
in the source, if they don't really mean anything...
Thanks for the verification, however. It was very helpful!
- Ken.
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