Is DMD 2.052 32-bit?

[Nebster]

On 10/03/2011 00:30, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 09, 2011 16:23:15 Nebster wrote:
>> On 09/03/2011 06:55, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> On 3/8/2011 1:23 PM, Trass3r wrote:
>>>>>> Yes, but you can compile an x64 dmd yourself on Linux.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there any "how to"?
>>>>
>>>> IIRC you have to edit linux.mak to use -m64 instead of -m32.
>>>
>>> It has worked in the past, but the 64 bit build is not regularly tested.
>>
>> Does the toolchain compile on windows in 64 bit too?
>> It's awesome you're finally starting the transition :)
>
> No. Regardless of whether you could build dmd itself as 64-bit (which is
> questionable), the linker is only 32-bit, and since it's written in assembly,
> you _definitely_ can't compile that as 64-bit. So, you don't have 64-bit on
> Windows - either the dmd binary or the binaries that it produces. And honestly,
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> Subject: Re: If D becomes a failure, what's the key reason, do you think?
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> Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>> Not for 1.0.
>
> Thanks :-)

Hehe, thanks for the response. I know about the linker but I was looking 
into the new version of UniLink which has support for D now afaik!

It's not that much of a problem for me at the moment anyway :)

Thanks,
Nebster