Reason for Win64 instead of Win32 [Was: Re: [fpc-pascal] windows 32bit cross to 64 ?]

[Sven Barth]

Am 17.08.2010 10:03, schrieb Marco van de Voort:
> In our previous episode, Sven Barth said:
>>
>> Does anyone know the reason why 64-bit Windows was added as win64
>> instead of (x86_64-)win32? With Linux it was done the ${platform}-linux
>> way as well.
>
> It's afaik microsofts own designation.

If that's the only reason then that sounds a bit lame in my opinion... 
but what's done is done.

A pity that I wasn't there when support for Win64 was added :P

Thanks for the answer.

Regards,
Sven