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bobmcnamara
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Is it 32 or 64 bits on ARM64? Why not both?
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billti
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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.
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