>> I'm not sure I can make sense of what you mean here. Given the preamble, I'd >> guess you're asking whether we should make x86_64 the targeted architecture >> for OSX support, and reclassify 32-bit OSX to unsupported or "hopefully it >> still works" status. (But in that case, it's the 32-bit which would be >> "relegated" to unsupported status while x86_64 is "considered a supported >> platform"...)
Yes. I'm saying that I believe that OSX x86_64 should be the officially supported platform instead of 32-bit x86 with all the associated guarantees and assurances. I wanted to see how people felt about that. mc >> >> Can you clarify the question? > > Here's something that happened to me: GHC was installed on this machine and > worked fine, > but when the operating system was upgraded to Mac OS X 10.6.something, GHC > broke, with > messages along the lines of "you can't use 32-bit absolute addresses in > 64-bit code". > The operating system is perfectly happy running both 32-bit and 64-code code > and all > the tool chain is happy working with either, but the *default* changed from > "say nothing > get 32-bit" to "say nothing get 64-bit". I'm guessing that GHC gives the > compiler some > C code and some (32-bit) object files or libraries. > > So now I have *different* GHC setups on the 10.6.5 desktop machine and the > 10.5.8 laptop... Since both machines have only 4GB of physical memory, > 32-bit would be > fine, except for all those lovely extra registers in x86_64 mode. > > I think the original poster is saying that the targeted architecture for OS X > support > should be the architecture that OS X assumes by default, and these days > that's x86_64. > > It would be really nice for x86 mode to be well supported for a while longer. > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
