Creating named tempfiles

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, February 04, 2015 09:02:01 ketmar via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Feb 2015 00:33:48 -0800, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d
> wrote:
>
> > On Wednesday, February 04, 2015 08:18:46 Kagamin via Digitalmars-d
> > wrote:
> >> You got it declared with stdcall convention, should change to cdecl.
> >
> > Well, I have it as extern(Windows) like everything else in
> > core.sys.windows.windows - it has extern(Windows): at the top. Should
> > that be something else in this case? I'm not at all familiar with the
> > Windows calling conventions.
>
> for the most time `extern(Windows)` is using only for winapi calls. and
> `wsopen` is a library call, so it's likely an `extern(C)`.

Well, unfortunately, a C function is a C function to me. I know that
different calling conventions exist in Windows, but I have no idea why, what
the difference is, or what they affect. AFAIK, it's not an issue that exists
on POSIX systems. I really should study up on it.

- Jonathan M Davis