MSDN is a large knowledge base, so maintaining and keeping it up-to-date is an extremely difficult and perhaps almost impossible task. In forums, there are many questions asked by programmers who...
The difference in performance between 32-bit and 64-bit versions of applications depends greatly upon their types, and the data types they are processing. But in general you may expect...
There are 3 most obvious advantages of 64-bit processors over their 32-bit counterparts: extended address space, capacity increase, and larger number of general-purpose...
Yes, it is. To do that, you should tell the linker that the application can process addresses for more than 2 Gbytes - that is compile the application with the /LARGEADDRESSAWARE parameter. Now...
In this article, I've collected a huge amount of links all of which could prove potentially useful to software developers who are getting acquainted with 64-bit world. In general, we will cover...
When developing an application, you may often face a trouble that variables of the types __int64, size_t, or ptrdiff_t are printed incorrectly. First of all we should mention the difference...
One of the most common errors a programmer encounters when porting applications from a Win32 system to a Win64 one is the error related to the function OnTimer. The function OnTimer is used nearly...
