Re: Wine compatibility checking tool

robert lippmann <[email protected]> Mon, 10 Mar 2025 15:55:47 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.emulators.wine.devel
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> Relatively few bugs are actually because a missing or stub export. Just because the export is there doesn't mean it behaves the way the application expects.
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> And not everything an application imports is actually called. That's why we have the @stub lines in the first place. It shuts up a lot of spam at program load time and still writes clear information when the function is actually called. FIXME lines/warnings aren't free - they tend to mislead users into thinking the crash is because of the last FIXME they saw.
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> Library imports also don't find COM interfaces used.

Ah, that’s what I was wondering.  I must have found a rare case of an application that uses a rarely used part of the Win32 SDK which hasn’t been implemented yet.