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Will .NET EXE target x86 work on AMD chips?

If I am targeting x86 for my .NET application, will it work correctly on AMD chips? I know that it will work with Intel chips, and that Vista 64 has the ability to run x86 applications in a special mode, but I don't know how many of them are hardware, or how much of an OS.

I tested it on Vista 64 with an Intel chip and it works great, but I don't have an AMD machine to test.

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Yes - they are compatible with binaries, otherwise they will not be swapped out :)



If you don't mean IA64 and AMD64, these are incompatible architectures.

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Yes it will work, however it will run like a 32-bit process versus 64-bit. The abstraction layer is done at the OS level by introducing a subsystem. It's called Wow64 (Windows on Windows 64). This allows 32-bit processes to run natively on a 64-bit machine.



It will only be destroyed if you do a low-level kernel integration. There is probably something you are not doing with the .Net application.

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It works fine

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This has nothing to do with Intel or AMD, it works on all brands of the same hardware architecture. 32-bit applications can run on 32-bit OS and 64-bit OS. 64-bit applications only run on 64-bit OS (and on 64-bit hardware).

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The key here is that .NET code targets the CLR, so all CPU level issues should be covered there ... I don't know for sure, but I believe there are multiple versions of the CLR for x86 / 64.

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