Using Forwarders

You use forwarders to combine several DLLs into one without having to relink old applications. For example, if MOUCALLS and VIOCALLS were combined into a single DLL called NEWLIB.DLL, then MOUCALLS and VIOCALLS could be replaced with special DLLs containing forwarders to NEWLIB.DLL.

Important Notes

• FWDSTAMP parses only the IMPORTS and EXPORTS section of the module definition file. FWDSTAMP does not verify the syntax of the other sections.

• When exported names already exist in the input file, their attributes are kept, such as resident or nonresident names table, and ordinal numbers. Any new conflicting attributes are ignored.

• If there is no exported name, FWDSTAMP adds the one defined by the EXPORTS statement in the module definition file.