. Anatomy of a C Header
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2. Conversion Basics Back to contents
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2.1. Naming
The naming in converted header files should follow Borland's style as far as possible. This means, keep the original names, but make them more Delphi-like.
How should the C names be translated into Delphi?
The C-programmer usually uses upper case letters for type identifiers, e.g. MY_TYPE. In Delphi, a type identifier has a T-prefix followed by the name of the type in mixed (proper) case. Underscores are not used. The Delphi-like translation of the C type identifier MY_TYPE is TMyType.
In C older header files the pointer-type is named LPMY_TYPE. In translation to Delphi it should be PMyType to conform with Borland's style.
Constants are usually named identically to the original name, including upper case letters and underscores.
A few examples:
C
Delphi-Translation
typedef struct _IMAGE_FILE_HEADER {
WORD Machine;
WORD NumberOfSections;
DWORD TimeDateStamp;
DWORD PointerToSymbolTable;
DWORD NumberOfSymbols;
WORD SizeOfOptionalHeader;
WORD Characteristics;
} IMAGE_FILE_HEADER,
*PIMAGE_FILE_HEADER;
type
PImageFileHeader = ^TImageFileHeader;
TImageFileHeader = packed record
Machine: Word;
NumberOfSections: Word;
TimeDateStamp: DWORD;
PointerToSymbolTable: DWORD;
NumberOfSymbols: DWORD;
SizeOfOptionalHeader: Word;
Characteristics: Word;
end;
#define LANG_NEUTRAL 0x00
#define LANG_AFRIKAANS 0x36
#define LANG_ALBANIAN 0x1C
#define LANG_ARABIC 0x01
#define LANG_BASQUE 0x2D
#define LANG_BELARUSIAN 0x23
#define LANG_BULGARIAN 0x02
#define LANG_CATALAN 0x03
#define LANG_CHINESE 0x04
CONST
LANG_NEUTRAL = $00;
LANG_AFRIKAANS = $36;
LANG_ALBANIAN = $1C;
LANG_ARABIC = $01;
LANG_BASQUE = $2D;
LANG_BELARUSIAN = $23;
LANG_BULGARIAN = $02;
LANG_CATALAN = $03;
LANG_CHINESE = $04;
