POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Inspect DLL : Re: Inspect DLL Server Time
5 Sep 2024 11:24:33 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Inspect DLL  
From: Mike Raiford
Date: 12 Oct 2009 15:54:34
Message: <4ad3897a@news.povray.org>
On 10/12/2009 6:13 AM, Le_Forgeron wrote:

> Worse, How do you find which DLL are needed by a DLL ?
> There is a "dependancy walker" (from  steve P. Miller) but that might
> not provide the argument list.

It won't. If you're lucky, the DLL will have C++ mangled names. That 
will give you the types of parameters, provided you can decode the name 
mangling. Good luck with that.

You'll notice some C functions often have an @ followed by a number. 
IIRC, that's the number of bytes that should be on the stack when the 
function is called. But, that's about as informative as it gets. No 
names for the parameters, especially no description of what they do. 
You're playing blind. Better be good at reading assembly to find out how 
the parameters are being used. ;)

-- 
~Mike


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