[Haskell-cafe] OSX i386/x86 and x86_64 - time to switch supported platforms?

[Steve Severance]

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 <mxcantor at gmail.com> 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
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