Re: Wanted: 64bit Delphi

Hannes Danzl[NDD] wrote:

> > 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.
>
> Especially in times of .NET i think even a native compiler should
> embrace the concept of
>
> * translating the source lang into a meta language
> * compiling the meta language into intermediate code
> * generate the final byte code for the destination platform

I don't think a native compiler should do that. Let .NET do that.

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