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From: David Wilkinson on 3 Feb 2010 11:34
Joseph M. Newcomer wrote:
> And other than the fact that the warning flag only works some of the time, it's OK.
>
> (It doesn't matter if it is right, as long as it is convenient? Another Unix philosophy
> comes back to haunt us...)

It may have been flawed, but it was able to diagnose a large number of 64-bit
issues.

--
David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP
From: Bo Persson on 3 Feb 2010 12:17
David Wilkinson wrote:
> Joseph M. Newcomer wrote:
>> And other than the fact that the warning flag only works some of
>> the time, it's OK.
>>
>> (It doesn't matter if it is right, as long as it is convenient?
>> Another Unix philosophy comes back to haunt us...)
>
> It may have been flawed, but it was able to diagnose a large number
> of 64-bit issues.

But it also gave a large number of false warnings, where the 64-bit
compiler would just have chosen a different overload for some
functions.


Bo Persson


From: SaticCaster on 4 Feb 2010 01:34
Articles:
Seven Steps of Migrating a Program to a 64-bit System -
http://www.viva64.com/art-1-2-850243650.html
20 issues of porting C++ code on the 64-bit platform -
http://www.viva64.com/art-1-2-599168895.html
64 bits, Wp64, Visual Studio 2008, Viva64 and all the rest... -
http://www.viva64.com/art-1-2-621693540.html
About size_t and ptrdiff_t - http://www.viva64.com/art-1-2-710804781.html

and 64-bit Developers Resources - http://www.viva64.com/developers-resources/
From: Giovanni Dicanio on 9 Feb 2010 06:04
"Woody" <ols6000(a)sbcglobal.net> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:35f69a1f-9897-4bfe-afed-aceb49fb5ba2(a)y7g2000prc.googlegroups.com...

> It's slow as molasses, and full of bugs (I have submitted many).

The RC is out there available for downloads for MSDN subscribers:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2010/02/08/visual-studio-2010-and-net-framework-4-release-candidate-now-available.aspx

It seems that the speed increased considerably.

Giovanni



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