Re: ddraw: Assign to structs instead of using memcpy

[Stefan Dösinger]

Am Sonntag, 17. Februar 2008 01:38:50 schrieb Andrew Talbot:
> And I presume that if the underlying struct tags 
> are different between two similar types, then the compiler would warn of
> type incompatibility if such an assignment were attempted.

Not quite. You can have a DDSURFACEDESC2 *ddsd pointer, with ddsd->dwSize == 
sizeof(DDSURFACEDESC). Then you have in binary a DDSURFACEDESC *, not a 
DDSURFACEDESC2 *. The compiler won't see that, since the type is determined 
at runtime.

(Don't blame me, Microsoft invented that)