Re: Four questions to dll/iphlpapi/* wrt lstrcpyA.

[Francois Gouget]

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005, Juan Lang wrote:
> Hi Peter, there's nothing magical in here, your understanding is correct.
> I'll answer each question individually though.
> > - I am wondering, why sizeof(ptr->Adaptername) is used instead of
> >
> > MAX_ADAPTER_NAME_LENGTH+1?
>
> That's just a style thing.  I prefer sizeof(thing being copied) to
> MAGIC_CONSTANT in case the structure being used changes.  That's unlikely
> in this case since the structure is defined in a public header.

It's not that unlikely. Microsoft has extended some of their structures 
many times in the past. That's why some of them have have these cbSize 
fields.