[PATCH 10/14] rpcrt4: Write type format strings for Automation types.

[Zebediah Figura]

On 11/8/18 1:01 PM, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> Zebediah Figura <z.figura12 at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> On 11/05/2018 08:57 AM, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
>>> A magic option is not great, but it would certainly be better than that
>>> ugly command sequence ;-)
>>
>> Sure, understandable; I'll send a v2 of this patch using that approach.
>>
>> I'd like to find a cleaner method than either, but I'm hard-pressed to
>> think of one. If anyone has any other ideas, please feel free to speak.
> 
> I'd suggest something along these lines:
> 
> *snip*
> 

This is a good idea, and I wish I'd thought of it ;-)

One possible concern I have is that widl isn't required to generate type 
format strings for individual parameters contiguously or in order. As 
things stand there's no reason for it not to, but that may not always be 
the case. For instance, MIDL is known to shorten the type format string 
by reusing entries for previously used types. I could see a widl 
implementation of this optimization being desirable, and possibly 
violating order constraints depending on how types are collapsed and 
written. Is this a salient concern?