Merge pull request #1262 from corob-msft/cr-export-ordinal

Add info to satisfy a question about ordinals

Author: PRMerger14

docs/build/reference/exports.md

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ---
 title: "EXPORTS | Microsoft Docs"
 ms.custom: ""
-ms.date: "07/11/2018"
+ms.date: "08/20/2018"
 ms.technology: ["cpp-tools"]
 ms.topic: "reference"
 f1_keywords: ["EXPORTS"]
@@ -38,13 +38,20 @@ EXPORTS
    func2=func1
 ```
 
-If the name that you export is from other module, specify the export's name in the DLL by using *other_module.exported_name*. For example, if your DLL exports a function `other_module.func1` and you want callers to use it as `func2`, you would specify:
+If the name that you export is from some other module, specify the export's name in the DLL by using *other_module.exported_name*. For example, if your DLL exports a function `other_module.func1` and you want callers to use it as `func2`, you would specify:
 
 ```DEF
 EXPORTS
    func2=other_module.func1
 ```
 
+If the name that you export is from another module that exports by ordinal, specify the export's ordinal in the DLL by using *other_module.#ordinal_number*. For example, if your DLL exports a function from the other module where it is ordinal 42, and you want callers to use it as `func2`, you would specify:
+
+```DEF
+EXPORTS
+   func2=other_module.#42
+```
+
 Because the Visual C++ compiler uses name decoration for C++ functions, you must either use the decorated name internal_name or define the exported functions by using extern "C" in the source code. The compiler also decorates C functions that use the [__stdcall](../../cpp/stdcall.md) calling convention with an underscore (_) prefix and a suffix composed of the at sign (@) followed by the number of bytes (in decimal) in the argument list.  
 
 To find the decorated names produced by the compiler, use the [DUMPBIN](../../build/reference/dumpbin-reference.md) tool or the linker [/MAP](../../build/reference/map-generate-mapfile.md) option. The decorated names are compiler-specific. If you export the decorated names in the .DEF file, executables that link to the DLL must also be built by using the same version of the compiler. This ensures that the decorated names in the caller match the exported names in the .DEF file.