POLINK supporting NONAME parameter for exports

[japheth]

Hello,

request: make POLINK support NONAME parameter for exports,
to allow exports without names, so they can only be imported by number.

syntax in .DEF file is (MS link):

EXPORTS
  export1  @1 NONAME

Regards

Japheth

[Pelle]

Hello,

request: make POLINK support NONAME parameter for exports,
to allow exports without names, so they can only be imported by number.

Yes, maybe. I have seen some discussions about if this is "safe" or not, when the ordinals gets out-of-sync, but maybe let the programmer decide when to use it...

Pelle

[japheth]

Thanks for responding,

It's not that big a problem. If it is too much work, please forget the request.

I tried to build a pretty large project (hx dos extender) with non-MS tools and replaced the MS coff linker by polink, which then had 2 or 3 problems, among them this "NONAME" issue. But why not giving these exports some fantasy names, as long as the export numbers are correct.

Regards

Japheth

[Pelle]

I will have to do some research, but it shouldn't be too difficult. Any change should also affect POLIB (and possibly PODUMP), which means a bigger job, but as I said, shouldn't be too difficult...

Pelle

[japheth]

Pelle,

if you decide it is too much to be done, then it might be possible to just ignore/skip the NONAME attribute (or, if this is too rude, display a warning that's its not supported [yet]), but not to terminate the link process.

Japheth