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the 64 bit question

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Name: mainux
Date: July 27, 2004 at 17:53:26 Pacific
OS: Suse 8.2
CPU/Ram: 1.2 T-bird 256mb
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If a program is compiled to run on a 64 bit processor will it still be able to run on a 32 bit processor?



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Name: heart_debian
Date: July 28, 2004 at 12:01:19 Pacific
Reply:

No.
But software compiled for x86 works on x86_64

There are 10 kinds of people, those who count in binary and those who don't.


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