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Why does WinAPI redefine (typedef) basic types?

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I see the point to defining things like LPSTR for brevity in code. But what's the point of typedef void VOID and char CHAR? It looks strange (no syntax highlighting) and it makes the programmer doubt basic assumptions of the type. It's not like these types would change in the future - otherwise the assumptions of void and char would be totally invalid. So what's the rationale behind this?
Jan 22 '09 #1
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RedSon
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Backward compatibility.
Jan 23 '09 #2
MTsoul
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So what should I use? What was it backward compatible for? Isn't the C standard pretty, uh, standard?
Jan 23 '09 #3
RedSon
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Use the normal intrinsic data types whenever you can.
Jan 23 '09 #4

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