Am 29.08.2017 08:35 schrieb "Michael Schnell" <mschn...@lumino.de>: > > On 28.08.2017 08:04, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote:I don't understand why we will have no more the right to use it under x64 OS... >> >> >> Because Microsoft declared it as deprecated. That means that should Microsoft ever bring out a 64-bit only OS ... >> > In fact this still is a (mere) portability problem. Supposedly in such a 64-bit only OS, 32 bit executables will not lose "extended" but will not be able to be started at all. > > In fact I suppose there will be possibilities to run them in a virtual machine. E.g. Virtual Box already can build up an invisible "one window" virtual machine for a single running program. >
The point here was if the FPU is used in a x64 process, which *is* possible, but disabled by default in the compiler. Regards, Sven
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