LP

[Etheran]

I am very new to the windows api and I'm wondering what lp stands for (e.g. lpsz).  I've made the assumption that it stands for long pointer (lpsz would be long pointer string zero) but I'm not sure.  I can't seem to find any confirmation so I'm using these forums.

[Eibro]

Yep, you're correct.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnw98bk/html/variablenameshungariannotation.asp

[Yoni]

Yes. The notation is left over from 16-bit programming, where you had near and far pointers.

[WolfSage]

You newb Eth....  

[Etheran]

hush!

[Zakath]

Wolf, that wasn't nice.

I bet you didn't know that either!

If you look carefully through the API, you'll still occasionally see something declared as a FAR pointer. This is redundant at this point, but as Yoni said, is a holdover from the time when products still had to be written for 16-bit Windows.

Normally, all pointers now on a standard windows machine are 4 bytes.

[Etheran]

win32.hlp is very informative.  I wouldn't have been able to make a window with asm without it!

[WolfSage]

I new it meant long pointer. But that's it.  

[Etheran]

near and far have to do with memory segments?

[Eibro]

near pointer = 16 bit = 65536 address limitation
far pointer = 32* bit = 2^32 address limitation

[Grok]

near pointer = 16 bit = 65536 address limitation
far pointer = 32* bit = 2^32 address limitation

What would a 64-bit implmentation be?

far far pointer = galaxy^long^long = ago

[Mesiah / haiseM]

lol

(sorry just had to post that, delete this if u want)

[Arta]

lol

[Banana fanna fo fanna]

How about a FFAR pointer - fuckin far pointer.