On 7 March 2016 at 09:59, Andy Polyakov <ap...@openssl.org> wrote: >>>>> Hmm. So why do I see this on my macbook? >>>>> >>>>> $ arch >>>>> i386 >>>> >>>> Try "uname -m" >>> >>> This is not reliable. Because it must have changed recently, it used to >>> be i386 even on 64-bit systems. sysctl -n hw.optional.x86_64 is the way >>> to go, it's right there in ./config... >> >> Sure, and that is used to decide whether to offer the 64 bit version. >> But its not helping me on what should be default. > > I thought suggestion was to default to 64 bit whenever it is an option. > And uname -m *was* returning i386 even on system capable of executing > 64-bit code. So that sysctl is something that works in *either* situation.
The question is: which is better? I've been told there's no advantage to 64 bit on MacOS unless you need the extra address space - if that's so, then we should default to 32 bit, I think. -- openssl-dev mailing list To unsubscribe: https://mta.openssl.org/mailman/listinfo/openssl-dev
