[wpkg-users] [Bug 258] Windows 7 64 bit not correctly detected

[Joe]

On 12/5/2011 1:59 PM, Alan Adams wrote:
> In message<4EDD1224.3060500 at freakyacres.com>
>            Joe<joe at freakyacres.com>  wrote:
>
>> On 12/5/2011 1:03 PM, bugzilla-daemon at bugzilla.wpkg.org wrote:
>>> http://bugzilla.wpkg.org/show_bug.cgi?id=258
>>>
>>> Rainer Meier<r.meier at wpkg.org>   changed:
>>>
>>>              What    |Removed                     |Added
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>                Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED
>>>
>>> --- Comment #3 from Rainer Meier<r.meier at wpkg.org>    ---
>>> Oh, I did not even think about this. But sure this is a good
>>> explanation too :)
>>>
>>> Closing this issue.
>>>
>
>> Is that the proper behavior?  Should a 64bit machine be detected as 32bit
>> because of the client software?
>
> I imagine it is. I would not expect to be able to run a 64-bit
> application on a 32-bit OS, which is what would happen if the hardware
> determined the architecture type.
>
> Alan

So a 32 bit client running under windows 64 bit on 64 bit hardware
detects as 32 bit?