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- while statement
- A C and C++ looping statement that contains the word while
followed by an expression in parentheses (the condition)
and a statement (the action). IBM.
- white space
- Anything in a program that is not code. Space characters,
tab characters, form feed characters, new-line
characters, and, when referring to source code, comments
are all considered white space.
- wide characters
- (1) Characters whose range of values can represent
distinct codes for all members of the largest extended
character set specified among the supporting locales. (2)
Elements of type wchar_t that, when
processed sequentially, can represent text. Some other
values can also support wide characters. See narrow characters.
- Win32
- The name of a 32-bit application programming interface
(API) developed by Microsoft Corporation.
- Win32 API
- (1) A set of Win32 functions that can be called from
source code. (2) A 32-bit version of the 16-bit Windows
3.1 API (native to Windows NT).
- Win32s
- A subset of the Win32 API that can run under Windows 3.x.
(The s stands for subset.)
- Windows NT
- An operating system on which the Win32 API is
implemented. It is a portable, high-end operating system,
which supports multitasking. It is the only operating
system that allows implementation of the Win32 APIs on
machine architectures based on processors other than the
x86 series, and it supports multiple processors. See Win32 API.
- Windows 95
- (1) A 32-bit operating system using the Win32 API that
runs 32-bit applications. Windows 95 is a multitasking,
multithreaded operating system that can control multiple
programs at once. VisualAge C++, Version 4.0 does not
support Windows 95.
- word boundary
- Any storage position at which data must be aligned for
certain processing operations. The halfword boundary must
be divisible by 2, the fullword boundary by 4, and the
doubleword boundary by 8. IBM.
- working directory
- See current
working directory.
- Workplace
Shell interface
- The object-oriented, graphical user interface of OS/2,
Version 2.0 and later versions.
- WPS
- See Workplace Shell
interface.
- write
- (1) To output characters to a file, such as standard
output or standard error. Unless otherwise stated,
standard output is the default output destination for all
uses of the term write. X/Open. (2) To make
a permanent or transient recording of data in a storage
device or on a data medium. I, ANSI.
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