[Mingw-users] [mingw - Windows API] RE: Definition of PBT_APMRESUMEAUTOMATIC miss

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By: dessent

The values associated with these #defines are *not* arbitrary, and there is
no way just to pick them at will.  They are defined precisely by the API/ABI,
as dictated solely by Microsoft and the PSDK.  Mingw has absolutely no choice
in this matter, because the code that you are calling that consumes them is
Microsoft's.  If someone were to just make up arbitrary values and stick them
in the header file, it would have disastrous results.

The problem is that we as an open source project cannot use Microsoft's headers
as a basis for any work, so as to remove any question of taint.  This means
that these numbers have to be gathered from other information sources, which
usually means somewhere on the msdn site.  All of the existing headers were
created in this way.

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