Comment by m463
4 hours ago
Even more fun is pointers, especially when windows / macos were switching from 32-bits to 64-bits (in different ways).
4 hours ago
Even more fun is pointers, especially when windows / macos were switching from 32-bits to 64-bits (in different ways).
Microsoft tried valiantly to make Win16 code portable to Win32, and Win32 to Win64. But it failed miserably, apparently because the programmers had never ported 16 bit C to 32 bit C, etc., and picked all the wrong abstractions.
> Even more fun is pointers, especially when windows / macos were switching from 32-bits to 64-bits (in different ways).
And yet even more of a fun time with porting pointer code was going from the various x86 memory models[0] to 32-bit. Depending on the program, the pain was either near, far, or huge... :-D
0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_memory_models