Round-up of the recent WindowsAPI discussions from when I wasn't looking

[Sascha Katzner]

Don Clugston wrote:
> Sascha Katzner wrote:
>> I really see no other way they could have created their files, if 
>> reverse engineering is off-limits.
> 
> No. They read descriptions of the functions, and used that to work
> out what must be in the headers. They did not look at the headers. 
> Sometimes, the documentation they used was wrong, and so there are 
> functions which are in different MinGW headers compared to where they
>  are in the MS headers.

But header files are only another kind of documentation. IMO there is no 
real difference if someone uses one or the other. The documentation on 
MSDN is also copyrighted AFAIK.

LLAP,
Sascha