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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (60536)10/26/2001 4:07:08 PM
From: Charles GrybaRead Replies (2) | Respond to of 275872
 
Tench, come on. IA-64 is a new microarchitecture with new instructions. x86-64 is almost 100% compatible with IA-32. I know that in the days of 16-bit code we did not have to do much to get our apps to compile in 32-bits other than change some macros and typedefs. I don't see why it would have to be any different for x86-64.

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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (60536)10/26/2001 4:21:53 PM
From: dale_laroyRead Replies (1) | Respond to of 275872
 
>That's about at ludicrous as saying, "Porting apps to IA-64 is as easy as hitting the recompile button."<

Hardly, "portable" x86 code is littered with architecture specific code, such as segment specifiers. x86-64 compilers should have little problem dealing with these architecture specific code lines, but I doubt if the same can be said of IA64 compilers.


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