On 2013 Jul 04, at 02:14, Uli Kusterer <[email protected]> wrote:

>  What this does is switch the entire application to be compiled as 64-bit, 

Yes, you're correct, Uli.  I moshed in the 64-bit conversion with this as extra 
insurance.

> which just happens to have the side-effect of not supporting most of the 
> deprecated Carbon calls.

If you simply use the latest SDK, will you not supposedly get compiler warnings 
of *all* deprecated calls, Carbon or otherwise? 

> Now you’ll have to port to 64-bit eventually anyway, but it might help to 
> first go over your code and look for any longs you’re using and make sure 
> they’re turned into int32_t or uint32_t if they’re supposed to stay 32 bit, 
> or use intptr_t or void* for any types that are supposed to be the size of a 
> pointer.

Yes, and there's a whole document on converting old apps to 64 bit.

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Conceptual/64bitPorting/transition/transition.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40001064-CH207-TPXREF101
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