[Gambas-user] 64 bits news

[José Luis Redrejo]

2008/1/17, Benoit Minisini <gambas at ...1...>:
>
> 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.



Great!


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.


How do we know if a project user  such  datatype?  I mean,  could you report
if some of the gambas based components use it? . It would be good to know if
we could avoid recompiling the projects.

Regards