DMD and 64-bit

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Walter Bright" <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
news:ijpp2j$2a5r$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> I don't mean this as "anti-64bit" trolling, just a genuine question, but 
>> what would be the point of a 64-bit build of DMD? (Note: I'm talking 
>> about host, not target). Just to compile projects that have (on the order 
>> of) gigabytes of source?
>
> Some machines (in particular, FreeBSD) do not support mixed mode 
> development.
>
> (Yes, I know FreeBSD does in theory, but I could never get it to work.)

By that, do you mean running 32-bit and 64-bit executables on the same 
system, or cross-compiling?