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Win64

Linux (Trillian)

Major Players

Hewlett Packard
IBM
Intel
Red Hat (Cygnus)
SGI
VA Linux Systems

Data Model (L64)

Pointers - 64-bit
Long - 64-bit
Long long - 64-bit
Int - 32-bit
Double - 64-bit
Long Double - 80-bit

Virtual Memory Subsystem

Kernel configurable page size of 4, 8, 16, 64KB
4KB page size allows for perfect Linux/x86 emulation

IA-32 Support

IA-64 and IA-32 instructions may not be mixed
Applications only, no drivers
RTLD (Run-Time Loader) supports IA-32 dynamic libraries without change