Re: [Boost-users] [interprocess] 32 to 64 bit ?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [interprocess] 32 to 64 bit ?
From: Ion Gaztañaga (igaztanaga_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-04-09 16:04:06

Stephan Menzel wrote:
> 
> The code is the same as in my 32 - 32 bit versions and known to work.
> Now I'm wondering, is this supposed to work or is 32 to 64 bit transfer
> not supported at all? Is this a bug or a feature? Do I have to have both
> applications in a 64 bit version?

There is no support for 32bit-64bit communications. You would need to 
use much lower level utilities, like mapped_regions to do that.

Internal structures have platform-dependent sizes (e.g.: offset_ptr 
needs to be bigger in 64 bit systems because it has to address much 
bigger address space).