Be careful out there

Kornél Pál kornelpal at gmail.com
Thu Oct 2 12:40:26 CDT 2008


Andrew Fenn wrote:
> Actually I wanted to ask a question about this..
> 
> When implementing an API do we have to change the variable names from
> those given in the msdn documentation?
> 
> More specifically, the typedefs for the xinput structs ( documentation
> here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb173049(VS.85).aspx ).
> Do I have the change the names of these or can I just keep them the
> same?

If you change these name your implementation will only be binary 
compatible but source code has to be modified to work with your headers. 
So you should use the same names in header files.

Kornél



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