From: Jan Dvorak Date: 2007-12-29T20:42:32+09:00 Subject: Re: testing for 64-bit environment On Saturday 29 December 2007 04:45:06 Luis Lavena wrote: > That how gcc implements it, but on windows: > ... > int remains 32bits, pointers are now 64 and to get "Bignum" you need > to use long long to get 64. > > So someone can say windows is more memory footprint friendly than > linux ;-) > > Luis Both on 64bit linux gcc and 64bit windows vc the 'int' is 32bit. The only difference is that 'long' is 64bit on gcc and other compilers (LP64 compatibility mode) while 32bit on windows VC (LLP64 mode). Jan