amd64 bit chips

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Monday, October 17, 2005 8:21 PM -0400 Ed Hill <ed at eh3.com> wrote:

> Did you know that, when developing user-space applications, there is
> almost *never* a need to reboot to use the i386 and x86_64 versions of
> FC-4?

Thanks! I just *knew* there must be an easier way!

Do you happen to know of any CPU-detection resources for 64-bit? I'm doing 
some game development and there's a piece of assembler that determines what 
CPU features are available, and I need to port that to AMD64.

The other piece of code I need to port is serialization logic that turns 
pointers into 32-bit unsigned tags, and stores the tag back into the 
pointer before streaming to disk or network. I'll probably have to create 
dual class stacks to hold the on-media 32-bit-compatible form and the 
in-memory version with 64-bit pointers.