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bobmcnamara | on: C++ proposal: There are exactly 8 bits in a byte
Is it 32 or 64 bits on ARM64? Why not both?
billti | parent
ARM64 has a 32-bit word, even though the native pointer size and general register size is 64 bits. To access just the lower 32 bits of a register Xn you refer to it as Wn.