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   On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 21:29:03 +0100, druck wrote:   
      
   > On 28/08/2024 00:30, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > You can do this on Windows too, but they had to bastardise their C   
   > compiler for people that hadn't. It's the only one that on a 64 bit   
   > platform that has long as 32 bits.   
      
   I know. This is why you have “LP64” (long and pointers both 64-bits)   
   versus “LLP64” (only long long and pointers are 64 bits, long is still 32   
   bits). I think LP64 is pretty much universal outside the Windows world.   
      
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