What does = "GetEnvironmentVariableA@12" mean?

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Dreamora
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This is needed for visual studio compiled dlls.
Thats a name sheme thing of win32 librarys.

What it actually means is that the function takes 12bytes of input. byte ptr, byte ptr, int in this case