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From: me at mattgillen.net (Matthew Gillen)
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:46:55 -0500
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To the original question regarding why porting is sometimes difficult, IBM has
a good two-part article on some bad assumptions people make that complicate
porting from 32-bit to 64-bit.  Worth a read if you ever have to do that type
of work:

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/library/pa-ctypes1/
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/library/pa-ctypes2/


Enjoy,
Matt

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