Re: Why 64bit Delphi compiler from Borland may be meaningless!

From: Abdullah Kauchali (non_at_non.com)
Date: 01/22/05


Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 18:08:47 +0200

Dennis Landi wrote:

> http://tinyurl.com/485y7

Great!

>> 3) On the AMD64, thats supports the running of bot 32-bit and 64-bit
>> code, would we be able to call unmanaged 32-bit DLLs from a 64-bit
>> .NET assembly? (Sometimes its not practical/possible to recompile
>> /port the 32-bit DLL).

"No. You will have to use any of the supported IPC mechanisms like named
pipes, sockets, memory mapped files, COM. There is no type of thunk on
64-bit version of Windows that will allow 64-bit user mode code to call
32-bit user mode code in the same process."

The same is said in the AMD faq.