FW: Certain files in the system32 directory are not listed
Dave Korn
dave.korn@artimi.com
Thu Jun 7 17:39:00 GMT 2007
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. The C language spec makes
no such guarantee. That's why we have things like [u]intptr_t, intmax_t and
ptrdiff_t. Any code that assumes a relationship between the size of a pointer
and the size of a long int is just bogus.
cheers,
DaveK
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