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   PID: SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
   On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 08:36:18 +0100, mm0fmf wrote:   
      
   > On 27/08/2024 05:31, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >> On Mon, 26 Aug 2024 15:06:52 +0100, mm0fmf wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On 26/08/2024 03:43, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Windows programs still use “Win32”.   
   >>>   
   >>> Win32 is the name of the API.   
   >>   
   >> Why is it not “Win64”?   
   >   
   > The 64bit version is the same API compiled for 64bit instead of 32bit.   
      
   That’s the trouble. It hasn’t really adapted to the availability as   
   standard of 64-bit integers, for example.   
      
   Compare the POSIX APIs, where they were careful to use generic types like   
   “size_t” and “time_t”, so that the same code could be compiled,   
   unchanged,   
   to work on both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. Not something Windows   
   code can manage.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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