[fpc-devel] Differences between fpc and Delphi regarding COM interfaces declarations

[Luiz Americo Pereira Camara]

While porting some Delphi code i found some differences in the 
declarations of COM interfaces.


1) In IEnumFORMATETC.Next(Celt:ULong;Out Rgelt:FormatEtc;Out 
pceltFetched:ULong):HResult; Delphi expects  pceltFetched to be a PInteger

win32 documentation:
  *HRESULT Next( ULONG*/ celt/*,* * FORMATETC_com_FORMATETC **/ 
rgelt/*,* * ULONG **/ pceltFetched/ *);*

Delphi code:
  function Next(celt: Integer; out elt; pceltFetched: PLongint): HResult;

My adapted code (Based in activex unit - required to compile):
 function Next(celt: LongWord; out elt: FormatEtc; out pceltFetched: 
LongWord): HResult;

There are two questions:
  - Should fpc adapt the code to be delphi compatible??
  - Calling this interface from fpc is not allowed to pass a nil 
parameter in pceltFetched, but it would be possible calling from 
outside?? C++? (The win32 docs does not specify)
    I'm asking this because the original code checks if pceltFetched is 
assigned


2) In the STGMEDIUM definition fpc has the following fields 
PUnkForRelease, PSTM, PSTG while delphi has UnkForRelease, STM, STG.
   First i think that fpc translated the win headers wrongly, but after 
looking for the original code declaration i found that fpc is following 
win32 api closely (with the "P")

  - What todo here: stay with win32 api or goto Delphi?

 Notice that this is only a matter of nomenclature and renaming them was 
sufficient to fix the code, but i took sometime anyway.


PS: I'm documenting all the differences i found and i pretend to create 
a database with the differences between Delphi and fpc/Lazarus. I'll  
publish it ASA_F_ . ;-)

Luiz