<div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Ben Grasset via fpc-devel <<a href="mailto:fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org">fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org</a>> schrieb am So., 27. Sep. 2020, 07:50:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>That last quote is absolute BS, to be very frank. There is no reason whatsoever not to use a natively-64-bit copy of FPC if running a natively-64-bit copy of Windows, and there hasn't been for well over half a decade at this point.</div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Yes, there is a reason: you can not build a i8086 or i386 cross compiler with the Win64 compiler (or any non-x86 compiler to be fair) due to missing Extended support. Thus the majority of the FPC Core team considers the Win64 compiler as inferior and also unnecessary cause the 32-bit one works just as well on that platform. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards, </div><div dir="auto">Sven </div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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