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

wren ng thornton wren at freegeek.org
Fri Feb 4 03:40:03 CET 2011


On 2/3/11 9:28 PM, Max Cantor wrote:
> Doesn't 10.5.x have the ability to generate and run 64-bit binaries?

Yes, it does. But it defaults to 32-bit as I recall. Richard O'Keefe 
suggested a general practice of targeting the architecture considered 
default by the operating system. That's a good suggestion; I was just 
pointing out that when new versions of OSX change the default 
architecture, we should continue to support older versions of OSX on the 
newly-default architecture even though that architecture isn't the 
default one for the older version of OSX.

-- 
Live well,
~wren



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