Ben Grasset via fpc-devel <fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org> schrieb am So., 27. Sep. 2020, 07:50:
> That last quote is absolute BS, to be very frank. There is no reason > whatsoever not to use a natively-64-bit copy of FPC if running a > natively-64-bit copy of Windows, and there hasn't been for well over half a > decade at this point. > Yes, there is a reason: you can not build a i8086 or i386 cross compiler with the Win64 compiler (or any non-x86 compiler to be fair) due to missing Extended support. Thus the majority of the FPC Core team considers the Win64 compiler as inferior and also unnecessary cause the 32-bit one works just as well on that platform. Regards, Sven >
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