Holy Win32 Voids, Batman!

[kris]

Pragma wrote:
> kris wrote:
> 
>> W00t! Poll Time!
>>
>> All you Win32 developers out there -- how do you feel about marking 
>> all instances of Win32 structs like so:
>>
>> POINT p = void;
>> ...
>> ...
>> ...
>> TV_ITEM tv = void;
>> ...
>> TEXTMETRIC tm = void;
>>
>> ensuring that there is an "= void;" affixed to each decl? If you're 
>> all happy with that, we can eliminate those issues with Win32 bloat 
>> without a fix from Walter. Woohoo!
>>
>> All those in favour please say 'aye'. All those not in favour say 'nae'.
>>
>> Those in favour of a true fix say nothing at all -- that way, we can 
>> truthfully assert most ppl want a real fix instead ;)
>>
>> (see related posts also)
> 
> 
> I must be late to the party, or mislaid my invitation.
> 
> Is this attempting to solve the link size of executables?  If so, and 
> this changes nothing but the level of bloat we've all come to expect, 
> then "AYE".  As long as it can't be misinterpreted by other (potential) 
> compilers, and is side-effect free code then there's no reason not to do 
> this.

It's all legal D, and kosher for C-based code. The downside is that when 
you miss out certain " = void;" (for specific Win32 structs) you'll get 
a ungrokable linker error.

See Sean's recent post on "Big problem with Small programs" for the true 
culprit.