Re: wow, there are more win64 apps than I thought...

[Francois Gouget]

On Sun, 21 Dec 2008, David Laight wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 02:00:14AM +0100, Francois Gouget wrote:
> > But Microsoft decided that since Windows application programmers have 
> > never encountered the word 'portability' even once in their life, they 
> > could not be expected to have understood the difference between 'int' 
> > and 'long', and thus would likely be so upset if 'long' where ever to 
> > change size that they might commit suicide in droves. So they decided 
> > that 'long' would remain 32bits.
>
> Not only Windows application programmers....
>
> What type to you think PDWORD_PTR is ?

'unsigned __int64' why?

Essentially, it's only the XXX_PTR types that are 64bits in Win64. I.e. 
it's only in those integer types that you can put a pointer.