One of the field of the IMAGE_EXPORT_DIRECTORY structure is 'Name'. According to the COFF spec, this field contains the name of the PE file which exports the symbols. I can programmatically read this field. It does really reference the name of the file which exports the symbols. But, can someone explains the meaning of this field? Why does it actually exist? It looks like it could be used as double-check..
The Name field in IMAGE_EXPORT_DIRECTORY contains the internal name of the module (i.e. original name that was used while building the module). This is useful in the cases where the actual file itself is renamed. For example, NT kernel that supports PAE is named as ntkrnlpa.exe. But, the Name field in its IMAGE_EXPORT_DIRECTORY struct still contains ntoskrnl.exe.