Fix for LoadStringW

James Hawkins truiken at gmail.com
Thu Jan 17 01:40:59 CST 2008


On Jan 17, 2008 1:31 AM, Christopher <raccoonone at procyongames.com> wrote:
> This patch fixes LoadStringW when 0 is passed for buflen. LoadStringW
> should now behave as described on MSDN:
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms647486.aspx
>
> This patch also fixes bug #10932
>
> Christopher Berner
>
> From dfe1719df7e8cd12cc5819c647049d9f39978841 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Christopher Berner <raccoonone at procyongames.com>
> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:21:23 -0800
> Subject: [PATCH] Patch to fix LoadStringW when buflen is 0
>
> ---
>  dlls/user32/resource.c |   11 +++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/dlls/user32/resource.c b/dlls/user32/resource.c
> index b9a51ae..148e9d1 100644
> --- a/dlls/user32/resource.c
> +++ b/dlls/user32/resource.c
> @@ -363,6 +363,7 @@ INT WINAPI LoadStringW( HINSTANCE instance, UINT resource_id,
>      WCHAR *p;
>      int string_num;
>      int i;
> +    int strlen;
>
>      TRACE("instance = %p, id = %04x, buffer = %p, length = %d\n",
>            instance, resource_id, buffer, buflen);
> @@ -379,9 +380,19 @@ INT WINAPI LoadStringW( HINSTANCE instance, UINT resource_id,
>      for (i = 0; i < string_num; i++)
>         p += *p + 1;
>
> +    strlen = (int)*p;
>      TRACE("strlen = %d\n", (int)*p );
>
>      if (buffer == NULL) return *p;
> +
> +    //if buflen == 0, then return a read-only pointer to the resource itself in buffer
> +    //it is assumed that buffer is actually a LPWSTR *
> +    if(buflen == 0)
> +    {
> +        *((LPWSTR *)buffer) = p + 1;
> +        return strlen;
> +    }
> +
>      i = min(buflen - 1, *p);
>      if (i > 0) {
>         memcpy(buffer, p + 1, i * sizeof (WCHAR));

No c++ comments allowed.  Also, you need to add a test case for this change.

-- 
James Hawkins



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