If on windows, use the windows UTF conversion functions due to the fact
that the existing utf code is meant for 32bit wide characters, while the
windows conversion functions will properly handle 16bit wide characters.
Changed:
char *os_get_config_path(const char *name);
To:
int os_get_config_path(char *dst, size_t size, const char *name);
Also added:
char *os_get_config_path_ptr(const char *name);
I don't like this function returning an allocation by default.
Similarly to what was done with the wide character conversion functions,
this function now operates on an array argument, and if you really want
to just get a pointer for convenience, you use the *_ptr version of the
function that clearly indicates that it's returning an allocation.
I actually kind of hate how strstr returns a non-const even though it
takes a const parameter, but I can understand why they made it that way.
They really should have split it in to two functions though, one const
and one non-const or something. But alas, ultimately for a C programmer
who knows what they're doing it isn't a huge deal.
This adds functions for piping a command line program's stdin or stdout.
Note however that this is unidirectional only.
This will be especially useful later on when implementing MP4 output,
because MP4 output has to be piped to prevent unexpected program
termination from corrupting the file.
This Fixes a minor flaw with the API where data had to always be mutable
to be usable by the API.
Functions that do not modify the fundamental underlying data of a
structure should be marked as constant, both for safety and to signify
that the parameter is input only and will not be modified by the
function using it.
Typedef pointers are unsafe. If you do:
typedef struct bla *bla_t;
then you cannot use it as a constant, such as: const bla_t, because
that constant will be to the pointer itself rather than to the
underlying data. I admit this was a fundamental mistake that must
be corrected.
All typedefs that were pointer types will now have their pointers
removed from the type itself, and the pointers will be used when they
are actually used as variables/parameters/returns instead.
This does not break ABI though, which is pretty nice.
This is not a com pointer; it should not release/close the handle when
an & operator is used, it should only return the handle value. Clearing
is only used on assignment.
It's a sad day when I realize that I did not add any null pointer
checking to any of the functions in this file. Discovered it while
checking all the different languages, happened when there was a missing
locale file for a certain module that hadn't had the language uploaded
yet.
There was a fundamental flaw with the string type conversion functions
where the sizes were not being properly accounted for. They were using
the 'len' value as a value for the output rather than only for the
input, which was bad because the output could have more or less
characters than the input.
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