Returns the temperature of the motherboard if the computer is currently on fire. Smoldering doesn't count. If the computer isn't on fire, the function returns some other value.
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Though of course, the Microsoft engineer[ing committee] was entirely serious when they wrote the OP's function signature, while I imagine the Be engineer having a laugh while adding it to the SDK and then getting it into the official docs in print.
...whereas in PHP there’s a setting in php.ini with a Hebrew name that will cause the function to spin-lock, pegging your CPU to 100% until it does catch fire, so that you can be sure it’ll always return a value. And it defaults to true.
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Though of course, the Microsoft engineer[ing committee] was entirely serious when they wrote the OP's function signature, while I imagine the Be engineer having a laugh while adding it to the SDK and then getting it into the official docs in print.
0. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Be_Developer_s_Guide/Wo...