> 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...
