First working Win64 program!

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Mon Aug 13 02:51:30 PDT 2012


On 8/12/2012 11:29 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Sunday, August 12, 2012 23:21:48 Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 8/12/2012 10:50 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>> Even still, it's a far cry to compare ditching 16-bit with
>>> (effectively) shunning 32-bit. Yes, 64-bit is bocoming more and more
>>> important, and yes, 32-bit is becoming less and less important, but I
>>> still think you're very much jumping the gun here.
>>
>> We'll see. It has already happened on OSX.
>
> OSX has a lot less backwards compatibility to worry about.

I fully understand that is why they are a first mover in leaving 32 bits behind.


> While D is primarily going to be used for writing new programs (and therefore
> can choose to be 64-bit), it's a huge impediment to adding D into an existing
> code base for it not be able to link with Microsoft's 32-bit linker. How much
> that will ultimately matter, I don't know, but I think that it's pretty much a
> guarante that we're losing quite a bit in the short term by not having
> compatability with 32-bit Microsoft C/C+ on Windows.

64 bits is far more important. We don't have arrows for every target, we have to 
pick the juiciest ones.




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