WriteConsole parameter annotation is wrong #299

WriteConsole parameter lpNumberOfCharsWritten has the annotation _Out_opt_ (out optional) in the documentation but curl/curl#12131 reports that the parameter is mandatory for Windows XP. I checked the Windows 7 SDK and the parameter is annotated as mandatory __out. However, I wrote the code where curl calls WriteConsole in Windows 7 and the function does not fail when the parameter is NULL. So at some earlier point it was not optional.

Reported-by: lordmulder@users.noreply.github.com

/cc LoRd_MuldeR (@lordmulder)

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• ID: c5217790-3d20-b461-f625-955cc24c60ad
• Version Independent ID: 5fddd692-19bb-414b-a83c-f46978575b1f
• Content: WriteConsole function - Windows Console
• Content Source: docs/writeconsole.md
• Product: windows
• Technology: windows-console
• GitHub Login: Michael Niksa (@miniksa)
• Microsoft Alias: miniksa