Unused functions in fusion.dll

[Paul Vriens]

Luke Benstead wrote:
> 2009/5/14 Paul Vriens <paul.vriens.wine at gmail.com>:
>> Paul Vriens wrote:
>>> Francois Gouget wrote:
>>>> The following fusion.dll functions are unused: nobody calls them and they
>>>> are not exported.
>>>>
>>>>  CompareAssemblyIdentity()
>>>>  GetAssemblyIdentityFromFile()
>>>>
>>>> I checked a Windows fusion.dll I have here and I did not see them being
>>>> exported there either. Yet, the MSDN documents them and presumably there's a
>>>> way a application can call them...
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know what's up?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>
>>> What version of the .NET framework do you have? It looks like these came
>>> with 2.0
>>>
>> Forget that remark. Just checked both fusion and mscoree on .NET 1.1 and 3.5
>> and neither have these exports.
>>
>> So, no clue ;)
>>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Paul.
>>
>>
>>
> 
> Just a pure guess, but Googling for CompareAssemblyIdentity returns
> this: http://forums.iis.net/t/1149942.aspx which shows:
> 
> mscorwks!CompareAssemblyIdentity+b04a
> 
> Is it possible that the actual exported CompareAssemblyIdentity (and
> the one documented on MSDN) should be in mscorwks.dll and NOT in
> fusion.dll?
> 
> Just thinking aloud.
> 
> Luke.
Spot on:

(Vista with .NET3.5SP1):

winedump -v -j export mscorwks.dll | grep -e CompareAssemblyIdentity -e 
GetAssemblyIdentityFromFile

   002FF322    48 CompareAssemblyIdentity
   00300A41    69 GetAssemblyIdentityFromFile

(W2K3 with .NET1.1):

not present

(W2K3 with .NET2.0):

   000F3C2F    47 CompareAssemblyIdentity
   002DE14F    68 GetAssemblyIdentityFromFile

(W2K3 / .NET 2.0SP1/3.0/3.0SP1/3.5):

   0013A67D    47 CompareAssemblyIdentity
   003277D3    68 GetAssemblyIdentityFromFile

(W2K3 with .NET 3.5SP1):

   002FF132    48 CompareAssemblyIdentity
   00300851    69 GetAssemblyIdentityFromFile

-- 
Cheers,

Paul.