From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 22 Sep 2025 19:57:42 +1200, David Goodwin wrote:   
      
   > Windows 2000 was to introduce new VLM APIs that allow 32bit applications   
   > on Alpha to access very large amounts of memory.   
      
   There’s a reason the API is still called “Win32”, not “Win64”.   
   Instead of   
   using POSIX-style symbolic type names like size_t, time_t and off_t, they   
   explicitly use 32-bit types.   
      
   This leads to craziness like, when getting the size of a file, it returns   
   the high half and low half in separate 32-bit quantities, even on a 64-bit   
   system, with native 64-bit integer support!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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