> Is the latter more common in Microsoft land? I don't know if I have an authoritative sample on that. I saw it exactly once when I worked at MS and I thought

> Is the latter more common in Microsoft land? I don't know if I have an authoritative sample on that. I saw it exactly once when I worked at MS and I thought it was weird. But I guess it aids in the "psuedo-inheritance" game that people play with structs and their first member being a "base class". Like GObject or gtk+ do. Or struct sockaddr, which duplicates the first few fields.