RE: Stubs needed by some Windows Update Installs

[Robert Shearman]

Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
> "Robert Shearman" <R.J.Shearman(a)warwick.ac.uk> wrote:
> > No, Aric is correct, although it doesn't make a difference on the 32-bit
> > Intel platform. On others sizeof(long) might not be equal to
> > sizeof(void*)
> > and "void *" is the real type of handles.
>
> Alexandre explained that already. That's a historical thing.
> Anyway, Alexandre
> has fixed this already when he committed the patch.

Yes, but it should be a janitorial task to convert all handles that are
longs in the .spec file to ptr. Why make it harder on ourselves in the long
run?

Rob