64 bit porting guide

[Tiago Maluta]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 7:46 AM, manju k <m_a_n_j_u_s_k@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I am porting my application from 32bit to 64bit architecture on intel.
> Can anyone point me to some good references for 64bit porting on intel
> platform(32bit i686 to 64bit x86_64)
>

There is good introductions by IBM developerWorks [1] and Sun [2].
Also worth check more architecture generic paper - "Porting tot 64-bit
GNU/Linux Systems" [3] by Andreas Jaeger, GCC Summit (2006)

[1] http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-port64.html
[2] http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/ILP32toLP64Issues.html
[3] http://gcc.fyxm.net/summit/2003/Porting%20to%2064%20bit.pdf

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