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[meta] thanks for not camel casing your post titles (lemmy.ml)
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I wasn’t sure how to express my gratitude.

It wasn’t bad for the occasional topical jest but holy shit does it make reading feeds painful.

Edit: in no way am I making a statement about code syntax. We don't write documentation in camel case for good reason.

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[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

ofcyfpos() #posix

GetWittyReplyExA() #msvc

[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

man 2 ofcyfpos

The "f" stands for fuck.

[–] sjmulder@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Note that while Visual C++'s msvcrt doesn't implement this POSIX function officially, there's a nonstandard _ofcyfpos_s() and it will in fact warn you that any use of the official ofcyfpos() is unsafe. The semantics are slightly different (it'll return 1 on success instead of the length of the reply) so you can't just #define the problem away.

[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

UCRT makes me so hard.

[–] sjmulder@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Don't forget to set the cbSize of the GETWITTYREPLYEXINFO structure before passing it to GetWittyReplyEx() or you'll get funny things happening to your stack!

[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You didn't specify wide or ascii, we're all doomed.

I'm glad to to meet another Knight of 9x.

[–] sjmulder@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

That's handled by virtue of GetWittyReplyEx being #defined to GetWittyReplyExA and GetWittyReplyExW right? Just be aware that nMaxReplyMessage needs to be specified in bytes (excluding the null terminator!) but the returned length is in characters.

[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

well hopefully that's how you're writing it.

i've definitely found the ascii version of a syscall being called because that's what the linux project uses so why wouldn't the junior dev that was assigned the port do it too?

there's no #define that will save you from that. I may or may not have been that junior dev so no shade.