Wholly support moving OSX to x64. x86 should be supported only on a best effort basis for legacy.
Steve On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Max Cantor <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- ------------------------------------ Steve Severance c. 240.472.9645 e. [email protected] ------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
