On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 21:13:17 +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote: >> + It is usually generated directly by MIDL, however this file has >> + been tweaked since then to account for slight differences in the way >> + gcc and MSVC++ compile it. In particular, in some functions REFIIDs >> + declared on the stack have been converted to plain IID* in order to eliminate >> + the constness of the REFIID type, ensuring that the zero initializer is not >> + discarded. >> + >> + Therefore, please do not regenerate this file. >> +*/ > > The comment is not understandable. > > Shouldn't it read '"REFIID" should not be used, because the value is not "const"'?
I don't understand that wording of the comment either unfortunately :( It's not that it shouldn't be used, it's more that in the original generated code (I think) it was written like this: REFIID riid; (REFIID ) riid = 0; I'm not sure why MIDL did this, but as REFIID is simply #define REFIID const IID* const changing those instances to IID* should "fix" it without any warnings about assigning to a readonly variable. REFIID can still be used elsewhere though. thanks -mike
