[ros-dev] Question regarding declaration of RTL_DRIVE_LETTER_CURDIR in include\ndk\rtltypes.h

[Sven Barth]

On 13.11.2010 19:22, Colin Finck wrote:
> Sven Barth <pascaldragon at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Shouldn't it be "_RTL_DRIVE_LETTER_CURDIR" instead of
>> "RTL_DRIVE_LETTER_CURDIR"?
>
> It doesn't matter if you just define a variable using this structure
> like "RTL_DRIVE_LETTER_CURDIR MyVariable;".
>
> It just matters if you somewhere declare it as "struct
> RTL_DRIVE_LETTER_CURDIR MyVariable;".
> If this isn't done anywhere, we could even create an anonymous structure
> (Microsoft extension to the C language) by defining the structure as
> "typedef struct {...} RTL_DRIVE_LETTER_CURDIR, *PRTL_DRIVE_LETTER_CURDIR;"
>
> But as all headers out there seem to define it as "typedef struct
> RTL_DRIVE_LETTER_CURDIR", we should do as well to ensure compatibility
> with all applications using the structure :-)

It just caught my eye cause every other struct definition in the ReactOS 
headers (that I've seen so far) is named with a leading underscore...

But thank you for your explanation why this isn't a problem.

Regarding the anonymous structure: wouldn't this break compatibility 
with gcc? (I don't know what features gcc supports ^^)

Regards,
Sven