> They were Microsoft functions long (6 years?) before they were standardized.
And most of what's in ANSI C (the first C standard, before ISO stepped in, from 1989) was in C compilers before ANSI C existed. I think void and void* were the only things ANSI C really added to the language.
My point is, the C standards body likes to standardize common usage, and 'what a Microsoft compiler does' is pretty close to being common in some parts of the world.
