jpm, 4 months ago

This is real documentation, written by a real software company: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/devnotes/attribute-record-header

jpm, 4 months ago

Does anyone want to guess exactly how big an ATTRIBUTE_TYPE_CODE is?

mattrobertson, 4 months ago

@jpm it’s Microsoft so it’s 3 chars right?

jpm, 4 months ago

@mattrobertson it is not a WCHAR (2 bytes)

jpm, 4 months ago

Hint - it is not on that page, it’s one click away here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/devnotes/master-file-table

mattrobertson, 4 months ago

@jpm I need to know now, is it an enum stored as an int? I hate them

jpm, 4 months ago

@mattrobertson that’s right. The bonus question is, how many 8-bit bytes, as stored on the disk, are in an int?

mattrobertson, 4 months ago

@jpm 4!

jpm, 4 months ago

@mattrobertson dingdingding we have a winner!

Do you want to go for the grand prize and guess what the magical end value of 0xFFFFFFFF documented on the second link actually is?

mattrobertson, 4 months ago

@jpm I do not!

jpm, 4 months ago

@mattrobertson fair. I don’t know either, so I’m assuming 2^32-1 and using an unsigned

jpm, 4 months ago

For those playing along at home, we have a winner! Now, I wonder if it’s signed or unsigned… https://aus.social/@jpm/111847649408742022

screw_dog, 4 months ago

@jpm the values listed are all single bytes in hex, but that's to easy, right??

jpm, 4 months ago

@screw_dog correct, that would be way too easy

glent, 4 months ago

@jpm For me, it 's API documentation which provides only examples. And I have a problem which is none of the above and want to know what the API can be relied upon to do.