Re: FW: Certain files in the system32 directory are not listed

[Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad at users dot sourceforge dot net>]

Brian Dessent wrote:
> I could be wrong but I think this is also the logic behind the 32IL/64P
> decision, in that structs have the same size/layout as long as they
> don't contain pointers, and are thus backwards compatible for file
> formats or whatever.

Ultimately, the problem from my perspective is it screwed over everyone 
that has been writing 64-bit safe code for POSIX platforms for years and 
years. IOW, it was a good decision for people that wrote bad code, and a 
bad decision for people that wrote portable code. (Anyone surprised? No? 
Good.)

When I had to do a port to Win64, the LP64 model being the "de facto 
standard" for 64-bit platforms was already well entrenched.

--
Matthew
"In the beginning was the word, and the word was
content-type: text/plain" -- Martin Schulze