64bits... at last!

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64bits... at last!

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Hello,

Just to let you know I (finally) moved to a 64bit dev/compiling environment. My programs will no longer work on very old platforms I guess.

I used to compile using MINGW 32bits compilers, resulting in programs that would just work fine on all systems. I moved to the latest version of GCC, 64bits that offers more security checks at compile time. I had to change a few things, essentially casts where address pointers have to be considered as 64bits values and are not limited to a 32bits (4GB) address space.

Programs are slightly larger, but should also execute better/faster on modern systems. Hope so anyways.

Applications and programs will be updated on a change needed basis on my web-site.
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