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  1. Nov 29th, 2001, 05:23 PM #1
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    Name Mangling (VC++6)

    Does anyone have a quick link on how VC "decorates" function names? This is totally out of curiosity, so no one really has to do an hour search for anything =).
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  2. Dec 1st, 2001, 08:59 PM #2
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    in a COM book i bought not too long ago, it explains how functions are "decorated" if you dont add C linkage for dll export functions...
    it says

    Code:
             CreateInstance()
    without C linkage would look like this

    Code:
              ?CreateInstance@@YAPAUIUNknown@@XZ
    i dont know if thats what you were looking for...i just came accross it...
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  3. Dec 1st, 2001, 09:45 PM #3
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    Thats what I am looknig for =). I want to know how to get the return type and parameters from that decoration.

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    You can search in the internet, if you don't find any information in somer strange sites, there won't be any. MS surely does not document this.
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  6. Dec 2nd, 2001, 11:12 AM #5
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    Originally posted by CornedBee
    You can search in the internet, if you don't find any information in somer strange sites, there won't be any. MS surely does not document this.
    For the good reason that it's totally internal and highly proprietary to the compiler.

    No two compilers can be guaranteed to mangle names the same way, and I don't think it's stated in the standard.

    Anyway, you can probably work it out by checking "create map file" under your linker settings and making a few examples
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