[Bug 508] Changed - Convert HANDLE to a void*

[wine-bugs at winehq.com]

http://bugs.winehq.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508

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  |     Severity: normal                   OS/Version: All                     |
  |     Priority: P1                        Component: wine-winelib            |
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! |  Assigned To: bugs at codeweavers.com                                         |
  |  Reported By: fgouget at codeweavers.com                                      |
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  |     Severity: normal                   OS/Version: All                     |
  |     Priority: P1                        Component: wine-winelib            |
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! |  Assigned To: wine-bugs at winehq.com                                         |
  |  Reported By: fgouget at codeweavers.com                                      |
  |      CC list: Cc:                                                          |
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  |                              DESCRIPTION                                   |
  See bug 90 for instructions.
  Approximate number of references: 1219
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+ ------- Additional Comments From fgouget at codeweavers.com  2002-06-09 11:50 -------
+ This is the blocking target right now.
+ The problem is that many other handles are being assigned to a HANDLE variable.
+ So these assignements cannot be done without a cast as they otherwise generate a
+ warning.
+ So the idea is to convert HANDLE, and hence all other handle types to void*.
+ Thus assignments will be doable between them without casts. Then we can continue
+ converting individual handles to strict mode, i.e. to pointer types other than
+ void*.
+ There are a number of compilation errors to fix to make Wine compile with a
+ void* for handles: cases where a handle is used as an index. Then there is a
+ whole slew of traces to fix: %d -> %p.
+ IOW, lots of work to do.
+