WinAPI for druntime and OpenGL for deimos.

[Gor Gyolchanyan]

in WinAPI each type of handle has it's own type. in Druntime it's all
aliased to void*. It currently doesn't match WinAPI.


On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 1:21 AM, Walter Bright
<newshound2 at digitalmars.com>wrote:

> On 11/23/2012 5:57 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>
>> There might be some incompatibilities, for example due to how the HANDLE
>> type is
>> declared. In C, you can use either 0 or NULL as a parameter to a function
>> accepting an integer or pointer. In D, you cannot. IIRC, some types were
>> declared differently in Druntime's modules and in the win32 bindings.
>>
>> If breaking code were not an issue, the best solution would be to make
>> HANDLE a
>> unique, opaque type (like a struct wrapping an intptr_t or void*) - which
>> is
>> exactly how it should be treated. It would need to support
>> assignment/creation
>> from "null" though.
>>
>
> This is why I don't approve of attempts to "fix" Windows APIs. It winds up
> being incompatible here and there, and breaks things.
>
> We all know what HANDLE should be, but it isn't. The D definition of
> HANDLE should match what Microsoft's windows.h declares it as.
>
> Any attempt to fix APIs to C libraries, etc., should be in a separate
> layer that goes on top of the D interface to those APIs.
>



-- 
Bye,
Gor Gyolchanyan.
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