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Re: HRESULT structure

#360
From: Malcolm Smith
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 12:51
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What's confusing, though, is that one diagram has 4 bits (Sev + C + R), 
whereas the other has 5 bits ( S + R + C + N + r) before the Facility bits 
are encountered (reading left to right).

-- 
Malcolm Smith


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> Alan Bellingham <alan@lspace.org> wrote:
>
>>The latter link would appear to be talking about HRESULTs on a 16-bit
>>platform and is therefore probably not terribly relevant these days.
>
> Ah, hold on, the lower diagram is talking about the 32-bit version.
>
> The S and R single bit fields in that diagram are the two bit Sev field
> in the first link. But anyway, I'd go with your first link - it appears
> to be much less confusing.
>
> Alan Bellingham
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