Frans Bouma wrote:
> Why is it irrelevant, if I may ask?
It's irrelevant to the question that we were discussing (which was "why
did MS design the Managed DirectX API like this?").
> Well, perhaps the answer lies somewhere in the reason why
> D3DMATRIX is defined as:
> [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential, Size=64, Pack=1),
> CLSCompliant(false), DebugInfoInPDB, MiscellaneousBits(65)]
> public struct _D3DMATRIX
> {
>
> }
>
> i.e. an empty struct. (Which I find strange)
>
> Perhaps it's reflector, dunno ;), but it might also be MC++ (I
> assume they've written this managed api in MC++, it would be the
> easiest) which creates these kind of constructs.
In my previous message I speculated that it might be because of the type
library, but I think you are correct, this is actually an artifact of
the MC++ compiler, it definitely generates such empty structures.
Regards,
Jeroen
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