> > Those pesky typos, had my fingers crossed while hammering > at the keyboard, it seems. > > > > I do not have a testing system either, but I once got in > contact with one of the first Itanium workstations an HP Itanium 1. > > In general the only difference between IA64 and AMD64 is > the name, those things checked by WPKG are identical. > > No, they are NOT identical. See below. > I know that the binaries are different, but the registry key that WPKG checks is the same for all WOW64 implementations. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384232%28VS.85%29.aspx > > I would change the variable x64 into the general one 64bit, > since it will flag any of the two 64-bit architectures. > > There is no difference in handling the registry in this respect. > > No, here I do not agree. As a package deployer you definitely > need to know > whether the system is IA64 or AMD64/x64/x86_64 (only the > later group refers to > the same thing). > The variable named x64 is used to indicate if we are running in an 64-bit environment, but it does not indicate, if we are running on AMD64 or IA64. ---snip > > Does anybody operate an IA64 system who can tell us what value the > PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE environment variable has on such a system? > See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384274(VS.85).aspx Sure it would be better to have feedback from one who is actually using such a system, but the hardware is expensive and the Itanium processor is only used for server systems now, since workstations were seldom ordered by customers. ---- Thanks for implementing the enhancement, so WPKG can be used by IA64 users in the same way like the rest of us. --- Stefan |