Re: The minimum environment for using VC++ compiler, cl.exe
Please go actually check some facts, because you're now saying very wrong things and about a minute of googling will prove it to you.
Everything under the sun that uses the X86 processor is capable of running 32-bit code. This is completely different than saying that everything under the sun must therefore have a 32-bit processor. Having a 64-bit processor is a sufficient condition to run 32-bit code because that's a thing 64-bit processors can do with a little help from your OS, and Windows is an OS that provides that little bit of help.
As for pointers, that's spelled out on a million different pages and books and processor manuals, but here's an MSDN page. And I quote:
An int and a long are 32-bit values on 64-bit Windows operating systems. For programs that you plan to compile for 64-bit platforms, you should be care ful not to assign pointers to 32-bit variables. Pointers are 64-bit on 64-bit platforms, and you will truncate the pointer value if you assign it to a 32-bit variable.
And Here's the OS X page that indicates that, for that platform, longs change size.
You could also write a program that uses sizeof to print variable sizes and compile it it on both. Alternatively, you could realize that 4 GB is 2^32 unique bytes and that if you want to address more, you therefore need a bigger pointer data type.
As for tablets, you can plug keyboards in. If you are not using one of the WinRT tablets, desktop apps can run. If I really need to find a source for this I can, but a quick Google is not turning up anything isolated; everything is part of another article and how-tos are not reputable if we're going to go i
nto the land of providing verification. All the non-Arm Windows 8 tablets are laptops about as powerful as netbooks but with the keyboard removed, run X86 code just like their desktop counterparts, and have the same APis.
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