WinAPI grossly lacking in core.c.windows.windows

Paulo Pinto pjmlp at progtools.org
Mon May 14 10:16:56 PDT 2012


On Sunday, 13 May 2012 at 09:33:18 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Sunday, May 13, 2012 11:19:12 Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> Am 12.05.2012 20:26, schrieb Walter Bright:
>> > On 5/12/2012 4:47 AM, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:
>> >> What are the plans to finish the WinAPI in druntime? It's 
>> >> grossly
>> >> lacking at the moment.
>> > 
>> > Pull requests for improvements are welcome!
>> 
>> Is core.sys.windows.windows the right module for it?
>> 
>> Somehow I would expect for the code to live in phobos 
>> std.windows module.
>
> No. The C OS function declarations go in druntime. The same 
> goes for all of
> the POSIX functions as well as any other system functions 
> specific to Linux,
> Mac OS X, or FreeBSD.
>
> Any Windows stuff in Phobos which uses Windows OS functions 
> should be wrappping
> OS functions rather than simply being declarations for them.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Thanks for the clarification.



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