Re: const char* typedefs

[Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@...>]

Am 07.02.2018 um 22:14 schröbte Coda Highland:
> On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 3:02 PM, Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@gmx.net> wrote:
> > Am 07.02.2018 um 19:09 schröbte Coda Highland:
> > > I was going to mention LPCSTR earlier.
> >
> >
> > To be fair, they probably had a `__far` in there which later vanished. This
> > is one of those situations (hiding platform differences) where I would
> > consider a pointer-typedef as well.
>
> Yes, they definitely did -- "Long Pointer to C STRing". Contrast with
> PCSTR "Pointer to C STRing", used when some pointers are different
> lengths than others (historically, segmented memory, with near
> pointers being 16 bits and far pointers being 24 or 32).

Not just historically! I'm working with the MSP430 micro controller 
which has normal 16bit pointers and `__data20` 20 bit pointers for the 
extended 1 megabyte address space. Btw., I got Lua 5.3 running there 
with just a few warnings in 70k flash and 2k RAM -- just some blinking 
LEDs so far, though.

> I'm an old enough fart to remember WinAPI programming in real mode. >.>;
>
> /s/ Adam


Philipp