Ah, yeah, const-correctness definitely gets way more tedious, but eh, just like the ugly as sin typedefs, I think it's a net win. I've been contemplating doing

Ah, yeah, const-correctness definitely gets way more tedious, but eh, just like the ugly as sin typedefs, I think it's a net win. I've been contemplating doing a little project that scans all the SDK/DDK headers for SAL annotations in use and making a big cross-reference where you can, like, click on the #defines in <sal.h> and see all the places where there are real examples of it being used. Some of the complex uses are really hard to grok just from MSDN documentation alone; I've found looking around at the WDK/DDK headers much more useful. Unrelated question: why'd you leave Microsoft? Were you doing NT kernel development there? Is that what you've done in the past?