64 bit architectures and C/C++

[Phil Howard KA9WGN]

rockwell at socrates.umd.edu (Raul Rockwell) writes:

>seems rather silly to break the compiler just because of old code...

And it seems rather silly to prevent NEW code from being GOOD code just
because of old code...

New compilers can be made to have different modes, one for old traditional
code, and one for new modern portable standard and possibly extended code.

The only time you'd need that is when you are porting old code to a new
machine and are not expecting to get the full benefit of the new machine
(such as using only 32 bit operations on a 64 bit machine... ick).
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