On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Sean McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 11/15/08 1:48 AM, chaitanya pandit said:
>
>>+ (BOOL)MacOSTigerOrLower
>>{
>> UInt32 version;
>> return (Gestalt(gestaltSystemVersion,(SInt32 *) &version) ==
>>noErr) && (version < 0x01050 );
>>}
>
> Gestalt() is a good approach, but never use gestaltSystemVersion. See
> Gestalt.h for why.
I don't think you need to "never use" it. Its failure mode is fairly
benign and completely documented. If you're only interested in
checking for numbers under 9, such as in this case, then it works just
fine.
Mike
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