Four questions to dll/iphlpapi/* wrt lstrcpyA.
Francois Gouget
fgouget at free.fr
Sun Mar 20 18:18:34 CST 2005
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005, Juan Lang wrote:
> Hi Peter, there's nothing magical in here, your understanding is correct.
> I'll answer each question individually though.
>
>> 1) I am wondering, why sizeof(ptr->Adaptername) is used instead of
>> MAX_ADAPTER_NAME_LENGTH+1?
>
> That's just a style thing. I prefer sizeof(thing being copied) to
> MAGIC_CONSTANT in case the structure being used changes. That's unlikely
> in this case since the structure is defined in a public header.
It's not that unlikely. Microsoft has extended some of their structures
many times in the past. That's why some of them have have these cbSize
fields.
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