OpenEuphoria

Re: 64 bit Eu?

• Posted by "H.W Overman" <euman at bellsouth.net> Nov 24, 2003
• 416 views

Microsoft will only implement pointers to data as 64bit (what I read anyway)
I dont think converting euphoria to use quads and/or 64bit pointer would be
too awfull for Robert, he's the man.

Euman

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Kluss" <codepilot at netzero.net>
To: <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 6:29 PM
Subject: Re: 64 bit Eu?


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> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "C. K. Lester" <euphoric at cklester.com>
> To: <EUforum at topica.com>
> Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 3:08 PM
> Subject: Re: 64 bit Eu?
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> > Ken Rhodes wrote:
> >
> > >I recall Rob saying he would port Euphoria to 64 bit
> > >when there was the demand for it.  So here it is Rob,
> > >I am demanding that you port Euphoria to the AMD
> > >Athlon 64!  :) :) :) :) :)
> > >
> > >
> > I second the demand, as well as vote for an OS X port. I might... I said
> > "might!"... get an eMac for Christmas to play with. :)
> 
> I vote for 64bit euphoria also, but won't that take either new compilers or
> alot of assebly code, or both, he'll probably have to rewrite the entire
> thing, and since most everyone that uses euphoria doesn't have a 64bit OS,
> its going to be hard to test the changes and the demand might also be low?
> In other words lots of work and little payoff for RDS?
> 
> Daniel Kluss
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