Re:Apple starting to alert users that it will end 32-bit app...
by prewett on Thursday April 12, 2018 @02:20AM
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If I recall correctly, Win32 let you stuff a 32-bit value into a window. If you wanted to write an object-oriented application, you'd stuff your this-pointer in that 32-bit value. Since every little thing (button, label, checkbox) is a window, you'd have a lot of that. Visual Studio might be old enough that they wrote the pieces that are still 32-bit in straight-up Win32, or maybe MFC. If so, I'd bet no one wants to touch it to port it over to modernity...
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Re:Apple starting to alert users that it will end 32-bit app...
by mizaru on Thursday April 12, 2018 @06:04AM
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You're probably referring to SetWindowLong. A 64-bit compatible version (SetWindowLongPtr) of that function is available since Windows 2000.
I'm pretty sure there's a guide on how to properly port applications to 64-bit on MSDN somewhere.