os.major etc. on Linux

[Brandon Allbery]

Oh, they changed that finally. I admit I hadn't looked at it on 10.11 (I
only recently upgraded the Mac from 10.9). It doesn't even mention ppc any
more.

Maybe Apple's getting the idea that the main thing they'd accomplished was
to confuse developers.

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 10:46 AM, René J.V. <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Friday May 13 2016 10:11:50 Brandon Allbery wrote:
>
> > Remember that OS X goes to great lengths to hide 32 vs. 64 bit
> > distinctions; 32 bit OS X kernels were perfectly capable of running 64
> bit
> > binaries on 64-bit CPUs, at least on Intel. So some of this comes down to
>
> True.
>
> > "Apple so decreed and it's much easier to play along than to try to make
> OS
> > X act differently". In particular, see how arch(1) works.
>
> According to `man arch`:
>
>            i386    32-bit intel
>            x86_64  64-bit intel
>
> which seems perfectly standard (though amd64 would probably have been more
> accurate than x86_64)
>
> I don't see anywhere though that i386 can also be interpreted as "32-bit
> or 64-bit (or whatever) Intel". That's what I find confusing, not that the
> 32-bit codeword refers back to the i386 CPU and the 64-bit codeword tries
> its best to avoid using the name of a non-Intel CPU ;)
>
> R
>
>
>


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