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		poizan42 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, al... ... because they just casted lParam into a pointer to DEV_BROADCAST_HDR a few lines above, which is the common part of the different structure it could point to. That's just doing inheritance the C way. What did they expect? A C++ class from a C api?

IntelMiner 9 months ago [–]

Generals was famously extremely rushed in development. Probably a novice programmer

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