Add first-class types for PCSTR
and PCWSTR
#1550
Merged
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They're finally here! While the Win32 metadata lacks explicit types for
PCSTR
andPCWSTR
, the metadata gives enough clues as to when they would have existed in the original APIs and mymetadata
crate now reconstructs that type information. As a result, thewindows
andwindows-sys
crates can now offer first-classPCSTR
andPCWSTR
types, alongsidePSTR
andPWSTR
, thus makingconst
-correct Win32 programming far more natural in Rust.As these types are synthesized and highly specialized, I've moved them into the
windows::core
andwindows_sys::core
modules respectively.Fixes #1496, fixes #1504