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March 2004 - Posts

Tuesday, March 16, 2004 11:28 AM

64-bit calling convention and PInvoke bugs

Ok, so Word for the Mac is failing me right now. I've tried twice to start this entry there and both times Word has gone kaput on me. Back to my trusty text editor… As for the inevitable "why Mac?" question... Well, I still haven't found a laptop
Posted by joshwil | 12 Comments
Saturday, March 13, 2004 1:55 PM

Behavior of 1.0/1.1 managed apps on 64bit machines

As I alluded to in my previous post there are multiple ways that we can go in terms of supporting legacy 1.0/1.1 assemblies on a Win64 machine. The context of the 1.0/1.1 support story is made somewhat simpler by the current plan of having both a v2.0
Posted by joshwil | 27 Comments
Thursday, March 11, 2004 4:11 PM

As promised, what is the WOW64 and what does it mean to managed apps that you run on 64bit machines?

So, what is the WOW64? If you already have a firm grasp please feel free to skip these first few paragraphs to the section titled “Break in here for the .Net perspective” . When I went and Google’d a bit to see if anyone had a convincing
Posted by joshwil | 23 Comments
Wednesday, March 10, 2004 6:39 PM

Some good 64bit background info (the next post will be about CLR and WOW64, promise!)

I plan to mix things up here a little bit, in that sometimes I'll talk about writing managed code to run on a 64bit box (both in 32bit and 64bit modes), sometimes I'll talk about how the CLR is implemented to make it work well on 64bit boxes, and sometimes
Posted by joshwil | 0 Comments
Wednesday, March 10, 2004 12:12 PM

Bigger pointers == More traction!!

Start off with a joke... Isn't that what they recommend? This particular joke stems from when Seattle ended up covered in snow this past January and it seemed that for whatever reason the CLR 64bit team were the only people who ended up working in our
Posted by joshwil | 3 Comments
 
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