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That's what Microsoft did from some version on in their build tools, all the HANDLE's etc used to just be typedef void , now they're a dummy struct each (HANDLE

• pjmlp 6y ago
  That was already opt-in back in the Windows 3.1 days, but few bothered to use it as such. Back when I was doing pure Windows C for a while, this helped quite a bit, Basically you had to #include<windowsx.h> and define the STRICT macro. There were also several utilities that made it much easier to deal with events, dialogs and callbacks. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/windowsx/ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/windowsx/ https://jeffpar.github.io/kbarchive/kb/083/Q83456/ https://jeffpar.github.io/kbarchive/kb/083/Q83456/ I got to learn it via the "Programmer's introduction to Windows 3.1" book, https://archive.org/details/programmersintro00myer https://archive.org/details/programmersintro00myer