[shell-coding] Re: Newbie question : Use Microsoft's DDE server

On Fri, 2 May 2003 19:28:18 -0500 "Jason Cone" <jason@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> i'm not sure what motivated Microsoft to create BOOL, but
> they do use it rather pervasively throughout their APIs. 
> perhaps they thought boolean value types would change with
> pointer sizes?  who knows...

typedef'd BOOLs were quite common before bool was made a part of the
language for the same reason that we have enums.  It's actually not a
Microsoft invention, otherwise it probably would have ended up as TFIBLV
or something ;)

IIRC, bool was not added to standard C until C99 (?), so MS could hardly
have used it in all of their APIs.

-rabidcow


  

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