Addresses used in a program, i.e. pointer values, are so called "virtual addresses". The processor contains a small amount of ultra-fast associative memory that stores conversions of several...
64-bit operating systems of the Windows family can execute 32-bit programs with the help of the WoW64 (Windows on Windows 64) subsystem that emulates the 32-bit environment due to an additional...
To get information about the number of processor cores in the system, you may use the Windows environment variable NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS. Below is a fragment of C++ code where the...
C4311 and C4312 are ones of the most frequent warnings generated by the compiler for 32-bit code not adapted for migration to 64-bit platforms. They are generated only when you use the /Wp64...
There are a lot of questions concerning the problem of being unable to create the 64-bit configuration of a project in Visual Studio, or, compile an existing 64-bit project. Almost always...
When developing a software product for a Windows-family operating system, you must keep in mind the restrictions imposed on sizes of data a program can declare and...
A great deal of compilation errors occurring when trying to recompile a 32-bit Windows application for 64-bit systems is related to inccorect function arguments. You may often see that in user...
So, why does WoW64 employ the mechanism of redirecting the register and file system instead of simply assigning the obsolete register keys and "%windir%\system32" to 32-bit applications and...