32 bit and 64 bit---- doubt

2008-09-29 Thread nidhi mittal
Hi all its a very basic ques may be for many of you .but i have this confusion from long that is. when we say this application is 32 bit application or 64 bit what do we mean by that is it processor which is 32 bit or 64 bit or the OS which is is 32 bit or 64 bit or what ? 2. Does it have some

Re: 32 bit and 64 bit---- doubt

2008-09-29 Thread pradeep singh
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:42 PM, nidhi mittal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all its a very basic ques may be for many of you .but i have this confusion from long that is. when we say this application is 32 bit application or 64 bit what do we mean by that is it processor which is 32 bit or

Re: 32 bit and 64 bit---- doubt

2008-09-29 Thread Kalpesh Rathod
Apart from these, following wiki link best describes what makes an architecture as 64 bit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 1:22 PM, pradeep singh [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:42 PM, nidhi mittal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all its a very

Re: 32 bit and 64 bit---- doubt

2008-09-29 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 12:42 +0530, nidhi mittal wrote: Hi all its a very basic ques may be for many of you .but i have this confusion from long that is. when we say this application is 32 bit application or 64 bit what do we mean by that is it processor which is 32 bit or 64 bit

Re: 32 bit and 64 bit---- doubt

2008-09-29 Thread Pranav Peshwe
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Bernd Petrovitsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip 2. Does it have some relation that in windows in C language int size According to the C standard, sizeof(int) is the native register width. And that is basically defined by the CPU. So if sizeof(int) == 2,

Re: 32 bit and 64 bit---- doubt

2008-09-29 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 17:38 +0530, Pranav Peshwe wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Bernd Petrovitsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip 2. Does it have some relation that in windows in C language int size According to the C standard, sizeof(int) is the native

Re: 32 bit and 64 bit---- doubt

2008-09-29 Thread Sunil
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Bernd Petrovitsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 17:38 +0530, Pranav Peshwe wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Bernd Petrovitsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip 2. Does it have some relation that in windows in C language int

Re: 32 bit and 64 bit---- doubt

2008-09-29 Thread Pranav Peshwe
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Bernd Petrovitsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 17:38 +0530, Pranav Peshwe wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Bernd Petrovitsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip 2. Does it have some relation that in windows in C language int

Re: 32 bit and 64 bit---- doubt

2008-09-29 Thread SK malik
32 bit. app 1) The addresses are limited to 32 bit(can be more in some cases). The address space is limited to this value. 2) It will run on both 32 bit OS and 64 bit OS(64 bit OS can run 32 bit apps) 3) A pointer is of 4 bytes. 4) some other differences wrt to other data types 64bit app: 1)