Version 3 of 64-bit computing

Updated 2007-01-06 00:10:08 by dkf

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"Tcl is mostly in good shape for 64-bit platforms. The 'mostly' comes because anyone wanting any individual entity larger than 2GB (which is still a definitely humongous string!) will be in trouble. There is a major piece of clean-up still required to fix that (it's bug 219196, and as you can see it's been known about for a long long time), but I'm planning to put that off until Tcl 9.0 because it is totally incompatible with preceding API versions at the binary level on 64-bit platforms (might also require source changes, but it's the binary-level stuff that's the problem)."

(Quote is from dkf on comp.lang.tcl)

DKF: The remain major issue is Tcl bug #219196[L1 ]. As you can tell from the number and a little knowledge of SF, we've known about that particular fault/misfeature for a good few years now.


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