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How can I tell that somebody used the MAKEINTRESOURCE macro to smuggle an integer inside a pointer?

September 25, 2013 Sep 25, 2013 09/25/13

Raymond Chen

Many functions and interfaces provide the option of passing either a string or an integer. The parameter is formally declared as a string, and if you want to pass an integer, you smuggle the integer inside a pointer by using the macro. For example, the function lets you load an resource specified by integer identifier by passing the ...