bitness

plural bitnesses

1. uncountableusuallycomputingThe architecture of a computer system or program in terms of how many bits (binary digits) compose the basic values it can evaluate.

   Table 7.1 summarizes the bitness requirements for TSPs under the various versions of TAPI and Windows.

   1998, Chris Sells, Windows telephony programming: a developer's guide to TAPI

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   Execute an API or DLL call of the wrong bitness from within any of these programs and the result is an unrecoverable run-time error.

   1995 August, InfoWorld, volume 17, number 30

   Thunking allows parameters to be pushed correctly on the stack, enables a DLL of a different bitness to load in your process, and converts memory addresses...

   1995, Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft office 95 data access reference

   Since both user mode and kernel mode have the same "bitness," 16-bit and 32-bit stacks do not need to be distinguished.

   1997, Stan Mitchell, Inside the Windows 95 file system