Updates to the WindowsAPI translation instructions; D2 only?

[Dmitry Olshansky]

02-Aug-2013 09:51, Sönke Ludwig пишет:
> Am 01.08.2013 22:59, schrieb Stewart Gordon:
>> - Define a mixin template along the lines of __AW in newer versions of
>> MinGW, so that
>>
>>      version (Unicode) {
>>          alias QwertW Qwert;
>>      } else {
>>          alias QwertA Qwert;
>>      }
>>
>> can become simply
>>
>>      mixin DECLARE_AW!("Qwert");
>>
>
> I would seriously take into consideration to just drop the "A" versions.
> D is unicode by nature, the "W" versions are supported by all NT systems
> (since Windows 95 using MSLU), and using an ANSI version of a function
> also just begs for bugs if typed as "char*" instead of "ubyte*". Many
> newer functions also just have a single wide string variant.
>
> IMO this is just legacy cruft that was maybe still useful in times when
> supporting Windows 95 was important and MSLU had to be installed as an
> explicit add-on, but for nothing else really (although frequently used
> in C programs because it saves typing an additional character: "" vs.
> L"" or even _T("")).

+1,000,000


> Also switching API based on a version statement always introduces a
> chance to break interoperability of two libraries that require the
> version to be set differently.
>
> The issue here of course is breaking existing code that doesn't use the
> "Unicode" path. Not sure how serious this is, though...


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Dmitry Olshansky