I'm not sure what forwarding you are referring to - forwarding (to me) implies a function wrapper or some such construct. This is exporting the function address + ordinal under a different label, which is somewhat different, in that there is no affect on the stack/ no overhead incurred. Rob -----Original Message----- From: Matt Seitz [mailto:mseitz@snapserver.com] I think I found the answer to my question: the forwarding occurs in the "cygwin.din" file. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/