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From personal experience porting fairly large and complicated multiplatform userspace application codebase from 32-bit to 64-bit on both Windows and Linux, I th
by rrdharan 9y ago
From personal experience porting fairly large and complicated multiplatform userspace application codebase from 32-bit to 64-bit on both Windows and Linux, I think the required effort is about the same.
Linux also uses different directories and has "potentially a lot of other issues". Windows uses LLP64 rather than LP64[1] but IMO that's just different not clearly/necessarily better or worse.
[1] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050131-00/?p=36563 https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050131-00/?p=...