Re: commctrl.h: Add WC_STATIC

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"Felix Nawothnig"  wrote:
> Frank Richter wrote:
> > +#define WC_STATICA "Static"
> > +#if defined(__GNUC__)
> > +# define WC_STATICW (const WCHAR []){ 'S','t','a', 't','i','c',0 }
> > +#elif defined(_MSC_VER)
> > +# define WC_STATICW L"Static"
> > +#else
> > +static const WCHAR WC_STATICW[] = { 'S','t','a','t','i','c',0 };
> > +#endif
> > +#define WC_STATIC WINELIB_NAME_AW(WC_STATIC)
> > -
>
> I'm curious, what is the reason for the special case handling for MSVC 
> and GCC when we have to do the portable way anyway?

(const WCHAR []) cast is not portable (gcc only) and L"string" syntax produces
different results on different platforms depending on the compiler's builtin
wchar_t size.