Re: Conformance tests for LoadStringW and LoadStringA

[Christopher]

[e-mail] wrote:
> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:50:53 +0100
> From: Alexandre Julliard 
> Subject: Re: Conformance tests for LoadStringW and LoadStringA
> To: Christopher 
> Cc: [e-mail]
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> Christopher  writes:
> > > -
> > >    ok(!memcmp(copiedstring, returnedstring, (length2 + 1)*sizeof(WCHAR)),
> > > -
> > >        "LoadStringW returned a string that does not match the string pointed to by the pointer it returned. \
> > > -
> > >         returnedstring = %ls, copiedstring = %ls", (wchar_t *)returnedstring, (wchar_t *)copiedstring);
>
> You cannot cast a WCHAR* to a wchar_t*.
>
> -- Alexandre Julliard [e-mail]

Thanks, I assumed they were the same since under Windows WCHAR is 
typedef'ed as wchar_t. Is the proper way to handle this to use 
WideCharToMultiByte() on returnedstring and copiedstring, and then pass 
the converted (multibyte) strings to ok()?

Christopher Berner