Text handling broke.

Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry at news.sloboda.ru
Tue Feb 6 08:45:08 CST 2001


"gerard patel" <nomailthankyoug.patel at wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> That's a philosophical problem;

Philosophical?! 

> if you have the point of view
> of the library user, the library that changes established behaviour
> is always wrong, but the library maker prefers something along the
> lines of  'don't take away my freedom to innovate' ;-).

If you will pass some buffer WITH the buffer length to some library function,
and the buffer will be completely filled, you WILL NOT EXPECT IT?

> I guess I'll send a patch checking the version to be compatible
> with 'obsolete' Win32 api. No clue if A.Julliard will want it
> though :-/

Fill free. Although filling all the passed buffers by some magic value
for the debugging purposes could be considered as well...





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