On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:09:14 +0200, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>  A DLL need not export its functions by name.
>
> But wouldn't that mean that there's no way to reach its functions?  
> (Unless you happen to know the exact base address - which will change in  
> the next version of the DLL...)

You can export functions by ordinal (i.e. number).



> I was under the (mistaken?) impression that COM methods are exported as  
> DLL functions, and the COM system runs on top of the underlying DLL  
> infrastructure.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms694363(VS.85).aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682305(VS.85).aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms686615(VS.85).aspx



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FE

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