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 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 ? > > It means the application can access 2^32 bits of memory i.e 4gigs.And > this means a 64 bit application needs a 64 bit kernel atleast, which > will run on a 64 bit processor. Aliter a 32 bit application can run on > top of either 32 or 64 bit kernel. And a 32 bit kernel can run atop a > 32 bit processor or 64 but processor. > > > 2. Does it have some relation that in windows in C language int size is 2 > > bytes in linux gcc it is 4 bytes > > No such restriction for C in windows. It is still 4 bytes. > > > i mean any relation of word size with it ?? > word size is 32 bits on both Windows and Linux. > > Cu, > --Pradeep > > -- > > Thanks & Regards > > Nidhi > > > > > > -- > play the game > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with > "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ > >
