8 bit os_f handles

[Jonathan Coxhead]

   Sorry to do a "me, too", but Richard wrote,

 | > You mean, causes previous binaries which might get linked with 
OSLib
 | > to cause a memory overwrite in the unlikely case that a pointer 
they
 | > pass to an 8-bit filehandle function has data in the rest of the
 | > 32-bits?
 | 
 | Yes.  The fact it's unlikely isn't good enough.  I want a cast-iron
 | guarantee.

   Exactly! A cast-iron guarantee! That's just what binary 
compatibility gives you.

   I think people exposed to the slap-happy world of Microsoft think 
that cast-iron guarantees cannot exist in software ... but they can, 
of course. They just take a little work, that's all.

   [Much more sensible stuff deleted ...]

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