Re: UNICODE_STRING storage

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From: Tim Roberts (timr_at_probo.com)
Date: 03/09/04 

Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 22:17:49 -0800

"Gary G. Little" <gary.g.little.nospam@seagate.com> wrote:
>
>L"Hello World" is a UNICODE_STRING?

No, but it IS a Unicode string, as Alex said.

>Gee whiz, for about 10 years now I've
>been under the assumption that L"Hello World" would give you a pointer to a
>zero terminated double byte character string, and that passing said string
>pointer to RtlInitUnicodeString would simply set the Length, MaximunLength,
>and set Buffer to the pointer to the string constant.

Right. How is that different from what Alex said?

>Now I find out that I have wasted all those lines of code passing
>L"Something or other" to RtlInitUnicodeString because L"Something or other"
>is already a Unicode_STRING. Well golly gee.

It is a Unicode string. It is not a UNICODE_STRING. RtlInitUnicodeString
converts the first to the second.

>Methinks one needs a review of C Programming 101, Alex.

Methinks you need to read posts more carefully, especially when you turn on
the <sarcasm> modifier. 

-- 
- Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
  Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc

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