All about 64-bit programming in one place

[evgryz]

http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2011/07/07/all-about-64-bit-programming-in-one-place/

[siphr]

Sigh! This article is probably a few years too late. It would've been handy when alot of people like myself were doing ports a while. Having said that it may still be useful for late adopters.

[srparish → siphr]

Adobe

[jbk]

I wish more people read this, notably *nix platforms, and finally understand that long isn't 64bits on all 64bits platform...

[wmf → jbk]

Where is long not 64 bits?

[snarfy → wmf]

If you use the LLP 64 bit programming model, long is 32 bit, and a new type is created 'long long' for 64 bit. 64 bit versions of Windows use the LLP model.

more info here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit#Specific_C-language_data...