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hi,
I have some problems with winsock library so I am calling loading it dynmically then calling the functions so far so good,but the problem is for example I see in the winsock2 header files that -
GetHostByName and some other functions are which I use there prototypes is kinda weird for example GetHostByName prototype is
DECLARE_STDCALL_P(struct hostent *) gethostbyname(const char*);

I know gethostbyname returns a struct hostent * but I don't see its calling convetion neither __stdcall or pascal or fastcall so I can convert it into typedef pointer then use it to dynmically call the function.

thanks.

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You should solve the other (winsock library) problem. Loading the library dynamically causes all kinds of "weirdness", leading to unreadable and hard-to-maintain code. The typedef would be something like

typedef __stdcall struct hostent * (*)(const char *) p_gethostname;

The macro name DECLARE_STDCALL_P suggests __stdcall may be appropriate.

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