Just a conceitual question about 64-bit

[VR]

Hi, I was reading about the .Net Framework 64 bit and I'm not sure about
something I read in the articles. MS says you'll have a special compiler in
VS.Net 2005 for the Framework 2.0 to compile code for 64 bit platforms.

Is this compiler the one that gets MSIL and generates binary data? Or is
another kind of IL generated?

(because as always said in .Net development, the MSIL must be one, despite
the language used to generate it and the platform it will be executed - so,
where this special compiler will be placed (language to msil or msil to
binary) is not clear to me)

Thanks a lot,
Victor

 

[Guest]

AFAIK, the 64-bit compilation is the JIT compilation and has nothing to do
with the compilation to IL.


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Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA

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