Re: Wanted: 64bit Delphi

At 00:19:47, 30.04.2005, David Farrell-Garcia wrote:

> DS wrote:
>
> > Billb wrote:
> > > Provide proof of the immediate need of at least 100,000 64 bit
> > > delphi licenses and I bet Borland will be all over it.
> >
> > One could say when there's immediate need, then one's too late.
> >
> > LP,
> > Dejan
>
> I doubt it. I see little problem in simply recomiling 32 bit Delphi
> code with the Delphi 64 bit compiler.

Like Danny Thorpe said, don't underestimate the effort of identifying,
fixing and testing critical spots, i.e. where sizes are important, but
are simply assumed as fixed, or where pointer and integer sizes are
assumed to be the same, or are cast to each other, etc.

--
Rudy Velthuis [TeamB]

"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end."
- Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
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