[Gambas-user] 64 bits news

[Benoit Minisini]

Yeh, I got the 1000th commit.

In this commit, the extern function implementation has been redesigned and is 
now based on libffi, a library I discovered at 1:00 in the morning.

This library allows to call any function in a shared library on any system. 
The old Gambas system only worked on 32 bits OS.

Alas everything is not perfect. Because of a flaw in the compiler design, 
projects that use the Pointer datatype will have to be recompiled to be used 
on a 64 bits system. 

This flaw will be fixed in Gambas 3. The 64 bits interpreter will be 
backported to the future 2.1 version of Gambas, and will have this flaw.

Regards,

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Benoit Minisini