Subj : Re: RP2350 and Pico 2 - things missing
To   : All
From : Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Date : Tue Aug 27 2024 23:30:19

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.

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