From b54b10dc6db2af78bb6aebfc1bfe541f98e68b70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Solomon Peachy <pizza@shaftnet.org>
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2026 13:04:05 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] sansapatcher:  Correct use of FormatMessageA() for windows
 builds

Change-Id: I3e026400fa0440221b4fd6d8c96f515737e36433
---
 utils/sansapatcher/sansaio-win32.c | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/utils/sansapatcher/sansaio-win32.c b/utils/sansapatcher/sansaio-win32.c
index 867c7c183d..6280e40911 100644
--- a/utils/sansapatcher/sansaio-win32.c
+++ b/utils/sansapatcher/sansaio-win32.c
@@ -60,12 +60,13 @@ void sansa_print_error(char* msg)
     LPSTR pMsgBuf = NULL;
 
     printf(msg);
-    FormatMessageA(FORMAT_MESSAGE_ALLOCATE_BUFFER | FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM |
+    if (FormatMessageA(FORMAT_MESSAGE_ALLOCATE_BUFFER | FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM |
                   FORMAT_MESSAGE_IGNORE_INSERTS, NULL, GetLastError(),
-                  MAKELANGID(LANG_NEUTRAL, SUBLANG_DEFAULT), pMsgBuf,
-                  0, NULL);
-    printf(pMsgBuf);
-    LocalFree(pMsgBuf);
+                   MAKELANGID(LANG_NEUTRAL, SUBLANG_DEFAULT), (LPSTR)&pMsgBuf,
+                       0, NULL)) {
+        printf(pMsgBuf);
+        LocalFree(pMsgBuf);
+    }
 }
 
 int sansa_open(struct sansa_t* sansa, int silent)
@@ -214,4 +215,3 @@ int sansa_write(struct sansa_t* sansa, int nbytes)
     return count;
 }
 #endif
-