[ros-dev] Undocumented APIs

[Andrew "Silver Blade" Greenwood]

I don't see how we'd not have DirectX, PnP, USB, network etc. Software 
does depend on these things.

If an API is undocumented, or the documentation is wrong... As has been 
said time and time again, perform clean-room reverse engineering.

This doesn't necessarily apply to stuff we *need* essentially. You might 
want some obscure API implemented which is undocumented - all you'd need 
to do is make sure it was reversed *cleanly*.

Which requires the interest of at least 2 developers - one to reverse 
and document, the other to code.

If that's the general procedure we are to take, then **I don't see what 
the problem is**.



Magnus Olsen wrote:
> Then accoring  "2. There exists a third party driver/application using the
> behavior" then we can  remove whole pnp, directx, win32k, rpc, network, usb
> and more. alot of api is undoc or is wrong. WHat we have left no reactos
> and I agesnt it. alot of manufactor using undoc api in lowlevel and u need
> implement it right.  and I do not like we have vote on it. let us work on
> how to implement stuff as we have always done.
> 
> other wise we can never achive
> the goal
> "ReactOS aims to achieve complete binary compatibility with both
> applications and device drivers"