Re: [MiNT] appl_getinfo(APGI_VERSION(=96)) implementation

[Odd Skancke <ozk@atari.org>]

tor, 16,.12.2004 kl. 08.19 +0100, skrev Philipp Donzé:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm just adding some concerns to the latest API improvements:
> 
> 
> > so, we get a new appl_getinfo_str() function:
> 
> Please don't forget to specify the minimum length the user application should provide for each string!
> I know, it's ugly to predefine the length of each string, but if I didn't miss a mail, no one ever talked about this issue.

 You missed a mail :-)

> 
> How does the AES know how many bytes can be written to these strings? What happens if there appears an AES replacement with a very
> long name? :-)
> 

 I think I speciffied this in my original posting, didn't I? The string
buffers should be made to take 256 bytes each, except from the aes_id
string which needs room for 8 bytes only.

> 
> > I think that AES can put in the 3rd string a free string with all the
> > informations that may describe the AES, for example the version number,
> > the alpha/beta/release status, the target architecture, the compiler used,
> > the date of the compilation, etc...
> 
> And how assure that the AES application allocated enough bytes to hold the whole string?

 It is defined in the appl_getinfo(APGI_VERSION) documentation we are
about to agree on, see my original posting ;-)


Best regards
Odd Skancke