RE: winebuild & (name, heap, init)

[Patrik Stridvall]

> On September 11, 2002 05:48 am, Francois Gouget wrote:
> > Hmm, for strings the spec files currently distinguish between input
> > strings (str) and output strings (ptr). This cannot be
>
> extracted from
> > the source files... unless we start using IN/OUT macros everywhere?
>
> It's all in the types, dude...
>
> LPCSTR/LPCWSTR = IN, LPSTR/LPWSTR=IN/OUT.

The is almost always correct. Unfortunately Microsoft is
not consequent in the regard, but then I guess that we could
modify the API slightly. If a WineLib application breaks,
it was in some meaning broken anyway.

However how do know whether it is IN/OUT or OUT?
For debug messages that is quite important since
the pointer in the OUT case might point to
uninitialized memory which shouldn't be printed
in the debug output...

winebuild & (name, heap, init)

[Dimitrie O. Paun]

On September 11, 2002 10:23 am, Patrik Stridvall wrote:
> However how do know whether it is IN/OUT or OUT?

Excellent point. There aren't that many IN/OUT cases anyway
(can you produce a count?), but we would need to add some
metainfo at the source level. No big deal, really...