Can't compile with vc7: oleauto.h(229) : error C2719: 'function-parameter': formal parameter with __declspec(align('8')) won't be aligned

[Dan Kegel]

A UCLA student trying to compile wine conformance tests on Windows
ran into this:
> [Compiling wine tests with VC7 or
> the server 2003 sdk gets] this error when compiling.
>
> ......\include\oleauto.h(229) : error C2719: 'function-parameter':
> formal parameter with __declspec(align('8')) won't be aligned

(See http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/373ak2y1.aspx )

Examining oleauto.h line 229, I saw the bad parameter was
of type DOUBLE.
I then went looking for the typedef for DOUBLE:
~/wine/include$ grep 'typedef.*DOUBLE' *.h
The interesting hit was:
wtypes.h:typedef double DECLSPEC_ALIGN(8) DOUBLE;

The patch that introduced the change was
 http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-cvs/2004/05/0027.html

I told him to try replacing DOUBLE and DATE with double
and date in the formal parameters in oleauto.h
for now.  Is that generally the right thing to do?
- Dan

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