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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
 


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