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"Malcolm Smith" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:

>Does anyone know which of these two Microsoft links contains the correct 
>information:
>
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc231198.aspx
>
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms690088(VS.85).aspx
>
>They both describe the structure of a HRESULT, but they are different.
>
>I only need to know as I am about to refer to this structure in a document 
>(for informational reasons) and don't want to provide the wrong information.

The latter link would appear to be talking about HRESULTs on a 16-bit
platform and is therefore probably not terribly relevant these days.

The former is definitely more comprehensive, though it doesn't contain
the information I was looking for some 15 minutes ago.

(I was trying to find out the name for 0x800706BA. Turns out it was
RPC_S_SERVER_UNAVAILABLE, or at least, the low 16 bits were.)

Alan Bellingham
-- 
Team Browns
ACCU Conference 2009: to be announced

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
-- 
Team Browns
ACCU Conference 2009: to be announced

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


"Alan Bellingham" <alan@lspace.org> wrote in message 
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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
> -- 
> Team Browns
> ACCU Conference 2009: to be announced 

Alan Bellingham wrote:

>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.

The first (older?) page certainly has more information,
and would be good to document.
The second page (vs.85, newer?) likely has corrected current format.

I also think the second looks better with single bit S being success/fail.