Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [hbelusca] 72943: [PING] - Use a dynamic-allocated buffer with FormatMessageW, fixes messages disappearance (eg. ping help in russian). CORE-12108 #comment Fixed in r72943. - Remove the unneeded 1-...

[Mark Jansen]

Be careful with that, they do not have to be null-terminated!
the return value will give you the length in this case.

On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Colin Finck <colin(a)reactos.org> wrote:

>   hbelusca(a)svn.reactos.org wrote:
> >   +#define RC_STRING_MAX_SIZE  4096
> >  +
> >  +    WCHAR Format[RC_STRING_MAX_SIZE];
> >  +    LPWSTR lpMsgBuf = NULL;
> >  +    DWORD Len;
> >       va_list args;
> >
> >       if (!LoadStringW(GetModuleHandleW(NULL), id, Format,
> >  _countof(Format))) 
>  Now instead of
>
>      #define RC_STRING_MAX_SIZE  4096
>      WCHAR Format[RC_STRING_MAX_SIZE];
>      LoadStringW(GetModuleHandleW(NULL), id, Format, _countof(Format));
>
>  just do a
>
>      LPWSTR lpFormatBuf;
>      LoadStringW(GetModuleHandleW(NULL), id, (LPWSTR)&lpFormatBuf, 0);
>
>  and you have a perfect universal solution for any resource string length
>  without caring about buffer sizes at all. It doesn't even need any extra
>  memory :)
>  This should actually be changed in a lot of places!
>
>
>  - Colin
>
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