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Started by leinad October 12, 2003 10:46 PM

3 comments, last by leinad 20 years, 6 months ago

leinad

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October 12, 2003 10:46 PM

I know what they are. I''m learning the Windows API from an old book (like ten years), so they''re using this specifier in some of the declarations. I haven''t seen them explicit any where else. Are the specifiers obsolete now?

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Maega

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October 12, 2003 10:58 PM

I believe they were left over from the 16 bit days

falkone

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October 12, 2003 11:04 PM

I thought those were obsolete as soon as protected-mode compilers came out

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Ready4Dis

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October 12, 2003 11:04 PM

Yeah, not used anymore. They were used back in the old days (brings back memories of borland turbo c/c++).

Ready4Dis

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October 12, 2003 11:06 PM

quote:Original post by falkone
I thought those were obsolete as soon as protected-mode compilers came out

Yeah.. pmode more or less == 32-bit mode (aka, once 16-bit died, there IS a 16-bit pmode, but I don''t know anything that actually uses it).

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