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If a parameter isn't used, what should I pass? - The Old New Thing (devblogs.microsoft.com)

submitted 8 months ago by SmartmanApps@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] bleistift2@feddit.de 18 points 8 months ago (9 children)

I am a sky-high developer and know little of such low-level APIs. Please humor my ignorance: Isn’t it bad practice to write a god-method that sometimes uses these parameters, sometimes others? Isn’t this better refactored into multiple dedicated functions?

[–] sim642@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

Yes, but with things like syscalls it's easier to do this than require every high-level thing building on the syscall to be modified and recompiled. Very few people need to use such low-level APIs.

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