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On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 02:05:43PM -0500, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Dave Korn wrote:
>> On 07 June 2007 18:26, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>>> Dave Korn wrote:
>>>> "  On 64-bit systems, Windows system files for 64-bit applications are
>>>> stored in the $WINDIR/System32 directory. To avoid confusion, the system
>>>> files for 32-bit applications are stored in the $WINDIR/SysWOW64
>>>> directory.  " 
>>> ...what did you expect from the platform that brought us the
>>> ever-so-helpful sizeof(void*) != sizeof(long)?
>>   Actually there's nothing really wrong with that.  [snip]
>
> True, but Microsoft is the /only/ platform I know of that decided to be 
> different :-).

There certainly were other platforms (Cray maybe?) where that was true.
I remember the pain of dealing with all of those assumptions my program
when we did that port.

cgf