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Sarir Khamsi (khamsi@ll.mit.edu) wrote:
> Yo,
> 
> Does anyone know where I can find information on what the meaning of
> the
> 
> #ifdef STRICT
> 
> statements in the windows.h file is? Does this have anything to do w/
> NT, backward compatibility or what? Thanks in advance.
> 
Its a way of forcing type checking in types that are different in name but
not in fact.  For instance a HPALETTE is a HANDLE which is a WORD.  
Therefore you can pass a HPALETTE to a WORD parameter, or any other 
compatible pseudo-type (pseudo- because the normal definition of HPALETTE
is just via #define HPALETTE HANDLE or some such).

When STRICT is in force the type definitions are carefully crafted to
generate compiler errors if you use the names in the wrong places.  This
is done usually by something like: 

#define HPALETTE struct tagHP {uint unused}

Look in any of the .h files for examples like this.

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