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64 Bit Intel-Processors??

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Thomas Zastrow

Hello,

I'm writing a little article about Pascal-Development under Linux. My question: Am I right that FPC will not work on Intels 64-Bit-Processors??? I just found something about the AMD-64-Bit-platform ...

Greetings,

Tom

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Marco van de Voort
to Thomas Zastrow
I'm writing a little article about Pascal-Development under Linux. My question: Am I right that FPC will not work on Intels 64-Bit-Processors??? I just found something about the AMD-64-Bit-platform ...

I don't expect problems. Maybe you should be more clear about what you "found".

Nikolay Nikolov
to Thomas Zastrow: I'm writing a little article about Pascal-Development under Linux. My question: Am I…
Thomas Zastrow wrote 6 lines
Hello, I'm writing a little article about Pascal-Development under Linux. My question: Am I right that FPC will not work on Intels 64-Bit-Processors??? I just found something about the AMD-64-Bit-platform ...

It should run on Intel EM64T (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EM64T) processors (that means the latest Pentium 4 and Xeon processors), although I haven't tested it on Intel - I have an Athlon 64. It won't work on IA-64 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA-64) processors like the Itanium.

Thomas Zastrow
to Marco van de Voort: I don't expect problems. Maybe you should be more clear about what you "found".
Marco van de Voort wrote 10 lines
>I'm writing a little article about Pascal-Development under Linux. My >question: Am I right that FPC will not work on Intels >64-Bit-Processors??? I just found something about the >AMD-64-Bit-platform ... > > I don't expect problems. Maybe you should be more clear about what you "found".

OK, I just found on the FPC-Website: " ... It is available for different processors: Intel x86, Amd64/x86 64, PowerPC, Sparc..."

So I was not sure if it runs on *Intel* - 64-Bit (I'm not a hardware-specialist, but it isn't sooo important for my text, I just don't want to write anything wrong.)

Greetings,

Tom

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Marco van de Voort
to Thomas Zastrow
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>>AMD-64-Bit-platform ... >> >> > >I don't expect problems. Maybe you should be more clear about what you "found". > > OK, I just found on the FPC-Website: " ... It is available for different processors: Intel x86, Amd64/x86 64, PowerPC, Sparc..." So I was not sure if it runs on *Intel* - 64-Bit (I'm not a hardware-specialist, but it isn't sooo important for my text, I just don't want to write anything wrong.)

AMD originally invented the 64-bit extensions to the x86 chipset, Intel licensed them later. Before Intel licensed it, the arch was named AMD64, after Intel also started pushing out AMD64's it is called x86_64.

So Intel x86_64's will work. Itaniums will not, but these are hard (and expensive) to come by.