alt Hacker NewsIt's partially stable.
Basically any thing documented on msdn in the API docs is considered stable.
Such as: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winternl...
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cmovq • today at 5:44 PM
Interesting, some functions explicitly mention:
> [NtQuerySystemTime may be altered or unavailable in future versions of Windows. Applications should use the GetSystemTimeAsFileTime function.] [0]
So it does seem like a bad idea for a standard library.
[0]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winternl...
Indeed. Anything documented has a function wrapper. `NtCreateFile` is a function wrapper for the syscall number, so any user-mode code that has `NtCreateFile` instead of directly loading the syscall number 0x55 will be stable. The latter might not. In fact, it is not; the number has increased by 3 since Windows XP[1].
One could probably produce some sort of function pointer loader library with these tables, but at that point... Why not just use the documented APIs?
[1]: https://github.com/j00ru/windows-syscalls/blob/8a6806ac91486...