On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Bauer, Steven wrote:

Steven,

> I understand your concern about V2008. I've had to install the msvcrt
> redistributable for some of my projects built under VS2005/8.
>
> As for 32/64 compatiblity, the ppm library has separate versions for
> 64 and 32 bit perl already, I believe. If that is the case,
> conditional complilation (#ifdef __AMD64) should be able to handle
> the 64 and 32 bit versions. The current code for 32 bit will be able
> to remain.

Yes, that's what I was asking for.  Because I think there is some temptation
to move the 32-bit code to using intrinsics too if we go this route for
64-bit mode (well, at least I would be tempted to do so), so I wanted to
point out reasons for not doing this.

Cheers,
-Jan

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