Re: [c+ai] one night with image codec

From	David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: [c+ai] one night with image codec
Date	2026-09-25 10:49 +0200
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 24/09/2026 16:30, bart wrote:
> On 24/09/2026 14:36, fir wrote:
>> i once was writing on this -
> 
>> #define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0501
>> #define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
>> #define WIN32_EXTRA_LEAN
>> #include <windows.h>
>> #include <Mmsystem.h>
>> #include<math.h>
>> #include<stdio.h>
>> #include<stdlib.h>
>> #include <stdint.h>
>>
>> #include "green-fire.h"
> 
> What's the point of posting a 1200-line program without the headers and 
> any other dependencies needed to compile it?
> 
> In any case, you should be posting links to github etc for programs this 
> big.
> 
>> int LoadBitmap(const char *filename, Bitmap *b)
>> {
> 
> This clashes with LoadBitmap from windows.h (where it is an alias for 
> LoadBitmapA). It has a different signature.
> 
> How did you manage to get this to compile? Is there some magic in green- 
> fire.h that makes it possible?
> 
> 

What do you mean by "alias" here ?  Do you mean a macro?  A small static 
inline function?  An identifier defined with an "alias" attribute 
(that's a gcc attribute, but I have no idea if it works on Windows 
targets) ?  A C++ constexpr function alias?

How this will work or not depends on what you mean.

And of course it depends on which <windows.h> is used - it is not a 
remotely standardised header, and details vary enormously with different 
toolchains, libraries, versions, etc.

Obviously Fir needs to answer much of this.

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[c+ai] one night with image codec fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2026-09-24 15:36 +0200
  Re: [c+ai] one night with image codec fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2026-09-24 16:06 +0200
    Re: [c+ai] one night with image codec fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2026-09-24 16:17 +0200
  Re: [c+ai] one night with image codec bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2026-09-24 15:30 +0100
    Re: [c+ai] one night with image codec fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2026-09-24 16:45 +0200
      Re: [c+ai] one night with image codec "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2026-09-24 16:31 -0700
        Re: [c+ai] one night with image codec fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2026-09-25 02:05 +0200
          Re: [c+ai] one night with image codec "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2026-09-27 15:05 -0700
            Re: [c+ai] one night with image codec bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2026-09-28 00:44 +0100
              Re: [c+ai] one night with image codec fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2026-09-28 04:22 +0200
              Re: [c+ai] one night with image codec Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-09-28 04:27 -0400
    Re: [c+ai] one night with image codec fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2026-09-24 18:27 +0200
      Re: [c+ai] one night with image codec David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2026-09-25 10:38 +0200
        Re: [c+ai] one night with image codec fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2026-09-25 10:57 +0200
    Re: [c+ai] one night with image codec David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2026-09-25 10:49 +0200
      Re: [c+ai] one night with image codec bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2026-09-25 10:49 +0100
      Re: [c+ai] one night with image codec Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> - 2026-09-25 12:01 +0000
        Re: [c+ai] one night with image codec fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2026-09-26 02:51 +0200
  Re: [c+ai] one night with image codec Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-10-01 00:08 +0800

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