RFC: Cygwin 64 bit?

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue Jun 28 19:37:00 GMT 2011


On Jun 28 13:19, Charles Wilson wrote:
> (b) If you DO allow multilib, we have to ensure that the correct bitness
> DLLs are loaded by the exes.

Again, this is *no* problem since Windows doesn't allow to load
x86_64 DLLs from a i686 executable and vice versa.

Maybe all who are interested in a 64 bit Cygwin should read this:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd371688%28VS.85%29.aspx


Corinna

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