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Word size on 32 and 64 bit

  • 1.  Word size on 32 and 64 bit

    Posted Mon February 04, 2008 02:00 AM

    Originally posted by: nayeem_khan


    Hi

    I want to know the machine word size on 64 bit
    on 32bit its 4 bytes

    Is it same on 64 bit also?

    from
    nayeem


  • 2.  Re: Word size on 32 and 64 bit

    Posted Mon February 04, 2008 01:10 PM

    Originally posted by: dukessd


    As far as I understand a byte is always 8 bits, so 4 bytes X 8 bits = 32 bit word.
    For a 64 bit word I would expect 64 bit word / 8 bits = 8 bytes.


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