Returning a string from an explicit DLL function call.

[dxd]

Hi everyone,

I am currently working on a project used to print the computer model information. I am having a problem trying to return a char string from a DLL. The function, as it is originally works fine. The function will compare a pre-defined string to pointer to a memory location successfully.

What I am wanting to do is enhance this function to return the actual model info instead of just success.

Below is the DLL function in question. Specifically, I am trying to find out how to alter this function return the model name and then how to get the information to my exe to display.


extern "C"
short IsWorkstation()
{
#define PROFWORK "Professional Workstation"
short RetCode = FALSE;
DWORD dwAddress;
if (GetSITAddress(dwAddress) == ERROR_SUCCESS)
{
DWORD dwProductNameRecordAddr = FindSITKey(dwAddress,0x10);
if (dwProductNameRecordAddr) //!= 0
{
BYTE recordsize = 0;
if (ReadPhysMem(dwProductNameRecordAddr+0x01,sizeof(BYTE),&recordsize) == sizeof(BYTE)) //Record Size
{
LPTSTR pProductName = new char[recordsize] ;
if (ReadPhysMem(dwProductNameRecordAddr+0x02,(recordsize),pProductName) == recordsize)
{
//
// need check for "Professional Workstation" string
//

RetCode = (short)!strncmp( pProductName, PROFWORK, strlen(PROFWORK)) ;

}
delete pProductName ;
}
}
}
return RetCode;
}


Thanks!!
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