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Most Windows apps don't deal directly with things line LONG_PTR and window procs - they just use a framework, and frameworks have been updated to do this all correctly a long time ago (this migration started in early 00s, when Windows on IA-64 appeared).

The main reason these days is that there's simply no strong incentive to go 64-bit for most desktop software. The 2Gb memory limit is a non-issue for most scenarios, and other than that, why bother? If you compile and test for 32-bit, it works for anyone who is still on 32-bit Windows and it works for 64-bit. And recompiling for 64-bit is usually easy, but it doubles your test matrix - so "here's a build, but there's no official support" is not an unpopular approach.



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