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Henrik, if you won't install anything, then you can't test anything.<BR>
Modula-3 is not going to break your XP install.<BR>
Nor is Visual C++.<BR>
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> machine is A 32-bit intel, and so it just might not be relevant to <BR>> testing 64-bit LONGINT.<BR><BR>
False!<BR>
LONGINT is 64bits on all platforms.<BR>
We have no 64bit Windows target currently.<BR>
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- Jay<BR><BR> <BR>> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:51:17 -0500<BR>> From: hendrik@topoi.pooq.com<BR>> To: m3devel@elegosoft.com<BR>> Subject: Re: [M3devel] More testing needed for m3back, was: RE: m3back/longint/atomics<BR>> <BR>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:57:34PM +0100, Olaf Wagner wrote:<BR>> > If I understand Jay correctly, it wouldn't be too difficult to bring<BR>> > the m3ack LONGINT changes for Windows into the release branch, but<BR>> > more testing would be needed.<BR>> ><BR>> > Randy, you're the only one I remember offhand who actively uses M3<BR>> > on Windows except for Jay. Could you have a closer look at it?<BR>> > (Changes are only on the trunk right now.)<BR>> ><BR>> > Or is anybody else here lurking and eager to do some Windows-based tests?<BR>> ><BR>> > If nobody volunteers, I'm afraid we will have to release without 64bit<BR>> > LONGINT on Windows.<BR>> <BR>> I'm somewhat interested in getting my programs working on Windows, but I <BR>> haven't yet installed *anything* on the pristine XP on my netbook. I'm <BR>> hesitant about connecting it to the net; the only antivirus I have is <BR>> refraining from using Windows, and it works fairly well(!). As far as I <BR>> know, I have no way of reinstalling Windows if my Windows is damaged.<BR>> <BR>> I/m mostly interested in getting my software into a state where Windows <BR>> nonprogrammers can use it; I use Linux myself.<BR>> <BR>> What would I need to do (from scratch; I'm not a Windows user; I just <BR>> happened not to delete Windows when I installed Linux)? The <BR>> machine is A 32-bit intel, and so it just might not be relevant to <BR>> testing 64-bit LONGINT.<BR>> <BR>> -- hendrik<BR> </body>
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