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Typical errors of porting C++ code on the 64-bit platform
By Andrey Karpov, published on 06 Apr 2008
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- Introduction
- Off-warnings
- Use of the functions with a variable number of arguments
- Magic numbers
- Bit shifting operations
- Storing of pointer addresses
- Memsize types in unions
- Change of an array type
- Virtual functions with arguments of memsize type
- Serialization and data exchange
- Pointer address arithmetic
- Arrays indexing
- Mixed use of simple integer types and memsize types
- Implicit type conversions while using functions
- Overload functions
- Data alignment
- The use of outdated functions and predefined constants
- Explicit type conversions
- Error diagnosis
- Unit test
- Code review
- Built-in means of compilers
- Static analyzers
- Conclusion
- Resources
Conclusion
If you read these lines we are glad that you’re interested. We hope the article has been useful for you and will help to simplify the development and debugging of 64-bit applications. We will be glad to receive your opinions, remarks, corrections, additions and will surely include them in the next version of the article. The more we’ll describe typical errors the more profitable will be the use of our experience and getting help.
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