Imagine if they made programmers put 64 bit DLLs in a "System32" directory and 32 bit DLLs in a "SysWoW64" directory. That would really keep 'em on their toes!
You should look into the behavior of the /windows/sysnative link. It appears and disappears depending on whether your process is running as 32 bit or 64 bit.
Imagine if they made programmers put 64 bit DLLs in a "System32" directory and 32 bit DLLs in a "SysWoW64" directory. That would really keep 'em on their toes!
You should look into the behavior of the /windows/sysnative link. It appears and disappears depending on whether your process is running as 32 bit or 64 bit.
Programmers should never put DLLs in those folders... Or even ever touch them.
Except for \Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts, of course.
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They already hamstrung themselves with LONG because DWORD just wasn't good enough and now long can't be 64-bit either.
why "yet"?
one occurrence is enough to make devs care about it