-----Original Message-----
>From: Irwin Scollar <[email protected]>
>Sent: Jul 9, 2014 4:57 AM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Running Delphi on 64-bit machines

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>In 54 years, I have learned that each port is an agonizing 
>experience, especially if the hardware architecture and the operating 
>system change significantly.   In recent years, I have used crutches 
>like writing a user interface in 32 bit Delphi and spawning 64 bit 
>executables written in VS C++ when needed for memory intensive 
>satellite imagery until Delphi XE2 became available.  My current 
>project, a clean switch to pure 64 bit code with XE6 for work with 
>multi-GB sized images has meant abandoning most of the TurboPower 
>suite because of the 32 bit incompatible in-line assembler (by Julian 
>Bucknall? : Steve Posey? or ?)   The JEDI JCL/JVCL libraries and the 
>additional built-in string handling in XE6 help, but it's still a lot of work.

Other than a few minor tweaks to some of the low-level string handling routines 
in SysTools, I didn't touch any of the ASM code in the TurboPower products. 
That was indeed largely Julian's bailiwick by the time I was at TP. 

We were actually just starting to talk about addressing 64-bit issues in some 
of the products when TurboPower was dismantled.  

Stephen Posey
[email protected] 



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