On Wednesday, 26 July 2017 at 17:48:21 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/26/2017 6:29 AM, Kagamin wrote:
Should we still try to mark them safe at all?
Marking ones that are safe with @safe is fine. OS APIs pretty
much never change.
Sometimes operating systems add new flags to their API which
change how some values are interpreted. Some API functions may,
for example, normally take a pointer to a such-and-such struct,
but if a certain flag is specified, the parameter is instead
interpreted as a pointer to a different data type. That would be
one case where an API call becomes un-@safe due to the addition
of a flag.
