8 Dec
2008
8 Dec
'08
4:34 p.m.
Steven Edwards wrote:
We discussed something like this years ago. It would
be nice if every sort
of legacy API that has any sort of hacks for brokeness as part of its
implementation, could be isolated and a simple recompile with something
like a #define NO_LEGACY_WIN32 so you could recompile without the hacks.
Not really that useful for the real world as you need the backward
compatibility but it is a nice idea for embedded or non-normal windows
targets like ARM.
I think this is like compiler warnings. Some checks are disabled by default
as they would cause more harm than good. But there is an option to enable
them. It will help to catch bugs in software.