[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] VFW capture support

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 07:47:59PM +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Christian Iversen <chrivers at iversen-net.dk> writes:
> > M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> >> Ramiro Polla wrote:
> >>> Rich Felker wrote:
> >>>> Not to mention the name
> >>>> DWORD is _incorrect_!!!
> >>> Sorry, I don't see how it's incorrect. Please enlighten us.
> >> 
> >> DWORD is short for double-word.  Nowadays, a word is usually 32
> >> or 64 bits in size, and hence calling a 32-bit quantity DWORD
> >> is incorrect.  It was correct, but stupid, on 16-bit machines.
> >
> > It is, of course, historical.
> 
> Doesn't make it less stupid.  It is also no excuse to use it in new
> code.
> 
> > However, it is also all over the intel CPU manuals.
> 
> There's a reason they call it wintel.

Well, alternatively you could say Intel (and I think AMD as well) still
consider their CPUs still as 16 bit CPUs, which for x86 is a justified
position ;-)
Now Microsoft have no such excuse given they also use that DWORD stuff for 32
bit even on IA-64 windows...

Greetings,
Reimar D?ffinger