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A lot of early Win32 code was originally Win16 code - you could in theory have the same code target both. I think that encouraged everyone to favor long / DWORD
by andrewf 5y ago
A lot of early Win32 code was originally Win16 code - you could in theory have the same code target both. I think that encouraged everyone to favor long / DWORD when they wanted a 32-bit integer even once the 16-bit compilers were receding into the distance.