Stan Hoeppner writes:
> Given the recent threads regarding 32 vs 64 bit I thought I'd take a
> moment to present information often omitted in responses to these posts.
>
> [ some good explanations ]
Another often underestimated bit is the new addressing mode relative
to the instruction pointer
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Given the recent threads regarding 32 vs 64 bit I thought I'd take a
> moment to present information often omitted in responses to these posts.
>
> First, the i386 kernel/user space have access to only the original 8
> general purpose registers of the 80
Am Samstag, 19. Januar 2013 schrieb Stan Hoeppner:
> > PS: do you know if, as for 16 bits to 32 bits, there is a the need to
> > switch processor's "mode"?
>
> Yes. x86-64 adds 'long' mode which comprises two sub-modes. See the
> Wikipedia page or the x86-64 Architectural Programmer's Reference M
On 1/19/2013 3:41 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
> Thanks for detailed informations, I was suggesting some of them
> (instruction sets and range of registers, but did not known about the
> new GPRs), but did not had the knowledge to explain things as nicely as
> you.
>
> I would like to
Le 19.01.2013 00:21, Stan Hoeppner a écrit :
Given the recent threads regarding 32 vs 64 bit I thought I'd take a
moment to present information often omitted in responses to these
posts.
First, the i386 kernel/user space have access to only the original 8
general purpose registers of the 803
Exactly a week ago I received a new to me Thinkpad T410 with a Core i5
processor, etc. It didn't take long to learn the laptop was running
much cooler with the 64 bit kernel even on a 32 bit userland. However,
VirtualBox refused to run in that arrangement. So I installed the
Wheezy amd64 and bum
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