w32api divergence issues

Mumit Khan khan@nanotech.wisc.edu
Thu Nov 11 11:20:00 GMT 1999


Vadim Egorov <egorovv@1c.ru> writes:
> Hello,
> As long as this thread occurred I dare to draw your attention to the fact tha
> t
> several structures in winnt.h should be packed to 2 bytes -- namely
> IMAGE_DOS_HEADER, MAGE_NT_HEADERS, IMAGE_SYMBOL, IMAGE_COFF_SYMBOLS_HEADER,
> IMAGE_RELOCATION, IMAGE_BASE_RELOCATION  and IMAGE_LINENUMBER --
> at least one Matt Pietrek's program for reading object files fails to work 
> without it.
> Once I posted my diffs to this list - so if you are planning significant chan
> ges in
> win32 headers please take a look at it.
> -- 

Thanks. There are still quite a few problems with winnt.h, thanks to 
mess of packing directives. I believe I have all of those fixed now, 
and will be in my next snapshot.

Regards,
Mumit



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