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RE: FW: Certain files in the system32 directory are not listed
> From: Matthew Woehlke
> Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 2:06 PM
>
> Dave Korn wrote:
> > On 07 June 2007 18:26, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> >> Dave Korn wrote:
> >>> " On 64-bit systems, Windows system files for 64-bit
> applications
> >>> are stored in the $WINDIR/System32 directory. To avoid confusion,
> >>> the system files for 32-bit applications are stored in the
> >>> $WINDIR/SysWOW64 directory. "
> >> ...what did you expect from the platform that brought us the
> >> ever-so-helpful sizeof(void*) != sizeof(long)?
> >
> > Actually there's nothing really wrong with that. [snip]
>
> True, but Microsoft is the /only/ platform I know of that
> decided to be different :-).
Tons (probably the vast majority) of compilers for embedded micros don't
have sizeof(void*) == sizeof(long).
--
Gary R. Van Sickle