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On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 03:12:51AM +0900, jojelino wrote:
>i found small piece of code that need some comment.
>
>from trunk
>
>       int (*wsastartup) (int, WSADATA *);
>
>       /* Don't use autoload to load WSAStartup to eliminate recursion. */
>       wsastartup = (int (*)(int, WSADATA *))
>		   GetProcAddress ((HMODULE) (dll->handle), "WSAStartup");
>
>would have meant
>       typedef int __stdcall (*pfnwsastartup) (int, WSADATA *);
>       pfnwsastartup wsastartup;
>       wsastartup = (pfnwsastartup)
>		   GetProcAddress ((HMODULE) (dll->handle), "WSAStartup");
>
>otherwise stack frame would be damaged.

Why the typedef?

cgf

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