Re: Little correction to kernel32.spec

[Francois Gouget]

On Sat, 11 May 2002, Vincent Béron wrote:
> There's a bunch of APIs defined with ptr instead of str/wstr: should I
> clean them up also?
>
> Changelog:
> - The definition of GetSystemWideDirectory{A,W} in kernel32.spec had
>
> some ptr args, while they are supposed to be {str, wstr} respectively.

This is wrong. These parameters are output parameters. If you declare
them as str, then the relay code will print them when the function is
called, i.e. before the buffer is initialized.

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Francois Gouget         [e-mail]        http://fgouget.free.fr/
                  In a world without fences who needs Gates?

Little correction to kernel32.spec

[Vincent Béron]

Francois Gouget a écrit :
> On Sat, 11 May 2002, Vincent Béron wrote:
> > There's a bunch of APIs defined with ptr instead of str/wstr: should I
> > clean them up also?
> >
> > Changelog:
> > - The definition of GetSystemWideDirectory{A,W} in kernel32.spec had
> >
> > some ptr args, while they are supposed to be {str, wstr} respectively.
>
> This is wrong. These parameters are output parameters. If you declare
> them as str, then the relay code will print them when the function is
> called, i.e. before the buffer is initialized.
>
> --
> Francois Gouget         [e-mail]        http://fgouget.free.fr/
>                   In a world without fences who needs Gates?

Ok, it's clearer now. I should've read the documentation more
thoroughly. My other patch suffer from the same thing, too. I'll change
that.

Thank you François!

Vincent