WIDL and Windows rpcrt4

[Michael Karcher]

Am Mittwoch, den 07.01.2009, 16:03 +0000 schrieb Rob Shearman:
> > So it appears Windows RPCRT4.dll is not happy with FC_ULONG entries within a
> > complex structure. I added a bunch of other primitive types to my complex_t
> > structure to see how they are treated by MIDL. See attached complex.idl file
> > and the MIDL-generated midl_complex_c.c file (also attached WIDL-generated
> > widl_complex_c.c for completeness). It appears that MIDL simply drops the
> > "unsigned" from any base type, at least within complex structures. "unsigned
> > long" gets encoded as FC_LONG, "unsigned short" as FC_SHORT and "unsigned
> > small" as FC_SMALL.
> >
> > Like I said, I'm no IDL expert. Does the stuff above make sense to you? Do
> > you think it would be a good idea to change WIDL to generate the same
> > encodings as MIDL?
> 
> Yes, and in fact Michael Karcher has already sent in a pair of patches
> to do this:
> http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2009-January/067032.html
> http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2009-January/067031.html
> 
> However, they probably won't apply cleanly after my recent changes.
> Michael, do you plan to rebase and resend these? If not, I can do
> this.

I will rebase them today in the evening (and send them in). I hope
Alexandre doesn't put me back in the queue because some of my last
patches were a bit quick-shot and flawed. I really believe that these
two are not doing any colleteral damage.

Regards,
  Michael Karcher