Hi.
2. Remove the need for including the windows.h header from rand.h
completely by simply explicitly declaring those few windows specific
types used there. I believe it is just the UINT, WPARAM & LPARAM types
used in RAND_event() - all simple types, and not really worth including
the whole windows.h just for them...
Yes, maybe it is possible to include <windef.h> instead, which just
contains the basic Windows definitions. Even that header contains quite
a lot of namespace pollution, but it is far less than <windows.h>.
I am not sure including windef.h would prevent the original symbol
naming conflict issues.
Why not simply change the simple types used in RAND_event() as follows:
UINT --> unsigned int
WPARAM --> void *
LPARAM --> void *
I do not believe there is a supported Windows platform defining them
in any way incompatible to this. And if it does - compiling the code
passing these values to a Windows API will fail when the compiler tries
to do an implicit type cast. If needed, even adding an #ifdef to use a
different type in such cases seems like a good solution here.
This would remove the need for any Windows system header #include all
together.
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Jurko Gospodnetić
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