Re: Windows Server 2008 64 bit

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:56:42 +0200
> From: Aharon Robbins <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> > One thing that should be kept in mind is that 64-bit Windows use a
> > different model than 64-bit Unices (a long is still 32 bit wide on
> > 64-bit Windows).  Thus, code that compiles and works on 64-bit Unix
> > machines will not necessarily do so on 64-bit Windows.
> 
> Weird. Is the long long a 64 bit value, or only the _int64 (or whatever
> it's called)?

int64_t or (non-portable) DWORDLONG.  I think "long long" is only
supported on Windows by GCC.

> Since long is 32 bits, I would think things would compile and run and
> work ok; I don't think gawk has any dependencies on sizeof long, nor
> does it use long long.

Does it use size_t and assumes it's the same size as a long? or cast a
pointer to a long?  All these work on 64-bit Unix, but not on 64-bit
Windows.