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_lread() ans _lwrite() are misdeclared in windows.h.  They are
declared as WORD, which means unsigned int, which means the compiler
believes that they cannot return -1, which they must do to report
an error.  If you compile with -W2 under C6.0x, which is apparently
the convention in microsftland, the compiler will quietly reduce
things like:

if (_lwrite(...) < 0) {
	// do something about it
}

to:

_lwrite(...)

because an unsigned cannot be less than zero.  If you use -W3 it will
tell you that it is breaking your code.

The sample dib code in the SDK depends on this misdeclaration; if you
correct the declaration in windows.h, the sample code will break.  I
suspect that there is other similarly broken code floating around microsoft.
Do you suppose Excel would pass lint?  nyuk nyuk nyuk

I think it's kind of cute the way they turn off the warning messages
that the compiler generates.  I knew a guy once who disconnected
the oil pressure warning light from his engine because he didn't like
it shining there on his dashboard.  Guess what happened to his motor?
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