From:	colin AT fu DOT is DOT saga-u DOT ac DOT jp (Colin Peters)
Subject:	Win32 API Headers and C++
5 Nov 1996 00:09:29 -0800 :
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I just compiled a simple C++ program using the windows32api-0.1.2 header
files and had it fail to compiler with "syntax error before __attribute__"
in the header files. These errors seem to be related to functions which
return pointers and have the __attribute__((__stdcall__)) attribute (which
all the API functions have). It seems that a declaration like:

LPWSTR *
STDCALL
CommandLineToArgv (
 ...

Will not be properly interpreted by the C++ compiler (the C compiler has
no problem with it). Changing the prototype to

STDCALL
LPWSTR *
CommandLineToArgv (
 ...

Makes the errors go away, and seems to work correctly, but I wonder if it
might break something or otherwise be a bad idea to do it this way.

Since these header files have (apparently) been integrated into GCC for the
next release, presumably someone has already solved this. I would like to know
what the "official" solution is. Is it a change to the compiler code or just
in the header files? If in the header files is it the above change or
something different?

Thanks,
Colin.

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