From: Radical NetSurfer Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: BAD strupr, BAD getw Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 07:57:26 -0400 Message-ID: <2mncqsos70c6u5losbrrlrq9qq2esrm9t0@4ax.com> References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 X-No-Archive: yes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.202.134.204 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.202.134.204 X-Trace: 25 Aug 2000 08:00:22 -0400, 216.202.134.204 Lines: 28 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.31.79.51 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Dear Steamer: I've never seen Builder (Console or Windows compiler) actually display/incorportate flawed data read by getw() (although most stuff I get/convert uses fread() to ensure the proper number bytes) (ah, thats B Y T E guys, as in 8-bits; or has DJGPP also decided to CHANGE that too?), Just how many of these "standards" has DJGPP decided to alter? NIBBLE == 4 bits (Single BCD value) BYTE == 8 WORD == 16 DWORD ==32 QWORD ==64 etc On Fri, 25 Aug 2000 10:11:19 GMT, dontmailme AT iname DOT com (Steamer) wrote: >By the way, this is nothing to do with DJGPP - Borland C++ 5.5 >does exactly the same, and DJGPP is just copying Borland or >Microsoft's getw() anyway, since this is not a standard function. > >S.