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To: dale_laroy who wrote (60554)	10/26/2001 4:35:37 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 275872

Dale, <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.> There is nothing to suggest that said "architecture specific code" is a trivial thing for x86-64 compilers. If anything, this would be a perfect example of how it'll be tougher to port 32-bit code to x86-64 than people think. Yes, porting code to IA-64 is also tough, but haven't I been saying that already? Tenchusatsu