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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 20:00:41 -0400
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: ANONYMOUS_STRUCT/UNION in w32api
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 07:45:35PM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 12:52:22AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> >The latest change to w32api related to the ANONYMOUS_STRUCT and
> >> >ANONYMOUS_UNION problem breaks applications which doesn't include
> >> ><windows.h> but all needed header files separately. Each of the
> >> >affected files should be able to define that stuff by themselves.
> >> >
> >> >May I suggest creating a new header, say "anon.h", which contains
> >> >that stuff and is included by all affected files? Or, maybe it's
> >> >only at the wrong place and could be moved to, say winnt.h?
> >>
> >> Maybe we need something more generic.  Linux has something like
> >> features.h but we obviously can't use that name.
> >>
> >
> >It's a bug in cinstall source.  I've sent a patch.
> 
> Why is it a bug?  It's been working for a year.
> 

It's a bug because cinstall is using functions implicitly prototyped by
not using #include <windows.h>.

> You should be able to include individual header files.
> 

IIRC, MSDN discourages it.

Earnie.

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