[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] VFW capture support

[Måns Rullgård]

Christian Iversen <chrivers at iversen-net.dk> writes:

> M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>> Ramiro Polla wrote:
>>> Hello Rich,
>>>
>>> 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.

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