Doesn't 10.5.x have the ability to generate and run 64-bit binaries? mc
On Feb 4, 2011, at 10:19 AM, wren ng thornton wrote: > Max Cantor wrote: >> someone? wrote: >>> 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. > > That sounds reasonable to me. The big caveat is that OSX >= 10.5.8 && < 10.6 > should still be targeted as well. While non-x86_64 Macs are quite old, OSX > 10.6 is still pretty new and so there are a lot of people still using 10.5 > (and our department still has a couple boxes running 10.4). > > So even though 10.5.8 defaults to 32-bit, it should still be actively > supported (as an x86_64 architecture). Just pass the necessary flags to gcc :) > > >>> It would be really nice for x86 mode to be well supported for a while >>> longer. > > Yes, it'd be really nice to support 32-bit mode for a while yet, even if it > isn't actively being targeted for improvements. > > -- > Live well, > ~wren > > _______________________________________________ > 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
