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Re: ANONYMOUS_STRUCT/UNION in w32api
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 07:45:35PM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 12:52:22AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> >The latest change to w32api related to the ANONYMOUS_STRUCT and
>> >ANONYMOUS_UNION problem breaks applications which doesn't include
>> ><windows.h> but all needed header files separately. Each of the
>> >affected files should be able to define that stuff by themselves.
>> >
>> >May I suggest creating a new header, say "anon.h", which contains
>> >that stuff and is included by all affected files? Or, maybe it's
>> >only at the wrong place and could be moved to, say winnt.h?
>>
>> Maybe we need something more generic. Linux has something like
>> features.h but we obviously can't use that name.
>>
>
>It's a bug in cinstall source. I've sent a patch.
Why is it a bug? It's been working for a year.
You should be able to include individual header files.
cgf