Help with #define STRICT and a pragma comment
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Can anyone give me a hand here?
Im trying to understand what would be the effect of the lines
#define STRICT
#pragma comment(lib,"comctl32.lib")
at main.c on a C+WinAPI program
I now what #define is for, but ive never seen this 'STRICT'.
There was another thread a couple of days ago on pragma comment, in the context that it is used (as Zero pointed out to me), it really doesn't do anything, as that syntax is a Microsoft extension.
I am sure someone will hop in on strict...
Wayne
STRICT turns on additional safeguards in windows header files against 'wrong' typecasting. For example with this on you can assign HWND to HINSTANCE because they're both int internally and you won't see any error.
With STRICT you'll get an error message.
Bedeox
Cool, thanks for the help!
Strict hasn't been hijacked to nefarious purposes by Msoft then, Bedeox?
Wayne
So how did my post end up in front of Bedeox?
Weird!
My question still stands though...
Wayne
It just changes definitions of some types...
(Oh, "can't" turned into "'can", what a mistake!)
This isn't M$ extension, but a feature of win32 headers.
It does hardly anything to properly written code.
Bedeox