windows: comment on fields omitted from the win32finddata1 struct
Updates golang/go#42637
Change-Id: I2e8c95af3cf2172c55bda6a15a749afcc6c45581
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/sys/+/284172
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diff --git a/windows/types_windows.go b/windows/types_windows.go
index 68b65d2..28cf15b 100644
--- a/windows/types_windows.go
+++ b/windows/types_windows.go
@@ -794,6 +794,14 @@
Reserved1 uint32
FileName [MAX_PATH]uint16
AlternateFileName [14]uint16
+
+ // The Microsoft documentation for this struct¹ describes three additional
+ // fields: dwFileType, dwCreatorType, and wFinderFlags. However, those fields
+ // are empirically only present in the macOS port of the Win32 API,² and thus
+ // not needed for binaries built for Windows.
+ //
+ // ¹ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/minwinbase/ns-minwinbase-win32_find_dataw describe
+ // ² https://golang.org/issue/42637#issuecomment-760715755.
}
func copyFindData(dst *Win32finddata, src *win32finddata1) {
