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Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild
06/09/12 03:59 AM


> Tell me what the good reason behind the fucking abuse of #define in all the Windows
> headers to select between wide/narrow character versions of APIs.

Win9x was ascii, WinNT was unicode with ascii backwards compatibility. When you consider the heritage of windows, it's pretty amazing they managed to have two completely seperate codebases that had any amount of compatibility at all.

> That causes so much trouble when trying to develop cross-platform software.

After twenty years of *nix experience from multiple vendors, I've had more headaches with *nix compatibility. There is more than just linux out there.







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* valkyrie source is now in the wild Stefano Teso 06/02/12 01:35 PM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild Cable  06/03/12 12:29 AM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild mesk  06/04/12 05:10 PM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild Solstar  06/02/12 11:00 PM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild Spelunker  06/02/12 11:16 PM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild Solstar  06/03/12 08:17 PM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild Anonymous  06/03/12 10:32 AM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild Vas Crabb  06/03/12 11:05 AM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild Anonymous  06/08/12 07:09 PM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild Vas Crabb  06/09/12 03:47 AM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild Anonymous  06/09/12 03:59 AM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild Vas Crabb  06/09/12 09:36 AM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild Anonymous  06/11/12 05:43 PM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild R. Belmont  06/08/12 08:34 PM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild Anonymous  06/09/12 04:21 AM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild AeroCityMayor  06/09/12 05:05 PM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild SmitdoggAdministrator  06/03/12 05:52 AM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild Spelunker  06/03/12 07:28 AM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild SmitdoggAdministrator  06/03/12 07:40 AM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild Spelunker  06/03/12 08:19 AM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild CTOJAH  06/02/12 03:46 PM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild R. Belmont  06/04/12 05:04 PM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild DoomSooth  06/04/12 05:39 PM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild Stefano Teso  06/02/12 04:17 PM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild Vas Crabb  06/02/12 05:22 PM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild R. Belmont  06/04/12 04:56 PM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild Vas Crabb  06/04/12 05:38 PM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild Olivier Galibert  06/03/12 04:13 PM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild Vas Crabb  06/03/12 04:36 PM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild Olivier Galibert  06/04/12 09:32 PM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild Spelunker  06/04/12 01:38 AM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild Matty_  06/04/12 02:49 AM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild Spelunker  06/04/12 04:40 AM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild Matty_  06/04/12 04:45 AM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild Spelunker  06/04/12 05:53 AM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild SmitdoggAdministrator  06/04/12 06:35 AM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild CrapBoardSoftware  06/11/12 02:15 PM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild mesk  06/11/12 03:42 PM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild Orochi_Kyo  06/04/12 02:13 AM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild Solstar  06/04/12 01:28 PM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild HowardC  06/03/12 08:10 PM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild Spelunker  06/04/12 02:12 AM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild Quantum Leaper  06/03/12 08:55 AM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild Vas Crabb  06/03/12 11:01 AM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild Spelunker  06/03/12 11:40 AM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild Stefano Teso  06/02/12 05:40 PM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild Spelunker  06/02/12 09:05 PM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild Stefano Teso  06/03/12 11:29 AM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild drewcifer  06/02/12 09:36 PM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild CTOJAH  06/02/12 04:46 PM
. * Re: valkyrie source is now in the wild Charles MacDonald  06/02/12 03:58 PM

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