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IIRC there was a documented ChangeSelector function that was actually not implemented, so you had to use the undocumented PrestoChangoSelector instead. Visual B
by bonzini 5y ago
IIRC there was a documented ChangeSelector function that was actually not implemented, so you had to use the undocumented PrestoChangoSelector instead. Visual Basic used it to implement a direct threaded code interpreter.
Some other functions had similarly great names:
>>Anyway, I am not sure what type of person writes a function called "BozosLiveHere" and puts it into USER.EXE
>This started out life with a non-bozo name as an undocumented
function in Windows 3.0.
>Windows 3.1 removed the undocumented function, but we found that
some programs were using the undocumented function and started
crashing.
>So we reluctantly put the function back, but changed its name to
"BozosLiveHere" so that nobody else would use it in the future.
>A similar story exists for "TabTheTextOutForWimps".